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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.
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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...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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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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You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
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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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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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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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The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several seemingly unrelated ideas that somehow magically come together to create the fabric of the story.
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You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
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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.
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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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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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a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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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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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.
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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.
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