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a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
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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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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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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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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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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I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.
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We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to disagree respectfully, and how, finally, to act on our convictions. We can read for pure delight, and if we do this as a family or classroom or other group we can build wonderful memories.
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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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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.
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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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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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A dream without a plan is just a wish
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We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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