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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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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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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
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Youth is a mortal wound.
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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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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.
Katherine Paterson
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.
Katherine Paterson
We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.
Katherine Paterson
The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
Katherine Paterson
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.
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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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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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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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I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
Katherine Paterson
...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
Katherine Paterson
I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.
Katherine Paterson
You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
Katherine Paterson
Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
Katherine Paterson
life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
Katherine Paterson
...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.
Katherine Paterson
We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.
Katherine Paterson
