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It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.

Katherine Paterson

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Katherine Paterson
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
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Katherine Womeldorf Paterson
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Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
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The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
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Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.
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To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
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You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
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I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.
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. . . Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. He kept the knowledge of it buried inside himself like a pirate treasure. He was rich, very rich, but no one could know about it for now except his fellow outlaw, Julia Edmunds.
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The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos.
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You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
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...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.
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I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.
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It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.
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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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A dream without a plan is just a wish
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The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several seemingly unrelated ideas that somehow magically come together to create the fabric of the story.
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...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
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