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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.
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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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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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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Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.
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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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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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I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.
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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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life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
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We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.
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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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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.
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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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...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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He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.
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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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Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
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Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.
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