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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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Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.
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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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life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
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You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.
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You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.
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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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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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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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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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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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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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You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
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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 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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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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