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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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Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
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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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Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
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The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos.
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The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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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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You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.
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Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
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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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You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
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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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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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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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I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.
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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.
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life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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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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