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Youth is a mortal wound.

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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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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...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.
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I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.
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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.
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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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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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...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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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 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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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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Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
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Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately marketable.
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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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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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