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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.
Katherine Paterson
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Katherine Paterson
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
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The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
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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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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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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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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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. . . Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. He kept the knowledge of it buried inside himself like a pirate treasure. He was rich, very rich, but no one could know about it for now except his fellow outlaw, Julia Edmunds.
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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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Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
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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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a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
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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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It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.
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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 world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.
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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
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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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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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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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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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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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