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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.

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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a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
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Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
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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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You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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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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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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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.
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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 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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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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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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I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.
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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 am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.
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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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