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The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

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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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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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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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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You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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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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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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I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.
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On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.
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life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
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It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.
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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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Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
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Youth is a mortal wound.
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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 don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.
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Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.
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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 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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