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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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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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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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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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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.
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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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A dream without a plan is just a wish
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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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To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
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Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.
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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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Youth is a mortal wound.
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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 cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.
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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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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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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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I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.
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As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.
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