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A dream without a plan is just a wish

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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a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
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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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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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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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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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You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
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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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I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
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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 have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
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