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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.

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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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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Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
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Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
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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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Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
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I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.
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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 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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This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.
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You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
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A dream without a plan is just a wish
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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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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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One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.
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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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a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
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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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Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.
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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
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