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You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
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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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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We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to disagree respectfully, and how, finally, to act on our convictions. We can read for pure delight, and if we do this as a family or classroom or other group we can build wonderful memories.
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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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The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
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the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.
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Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
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It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.
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He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.
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Shh he said. Look. Where? Can't you see'um? he whispered. All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you. Me? Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the queen they've been waiting for.
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It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.
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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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We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.
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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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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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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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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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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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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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Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
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You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
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