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Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
Katherine Paterson
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Katherine Paterson
Age: 91
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
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Katherine Womeldorf Paterson
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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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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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To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
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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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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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You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
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If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.
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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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...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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Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
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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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You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.
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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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You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
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As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.
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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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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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