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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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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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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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Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
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I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.
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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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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 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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If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?
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a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
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We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
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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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