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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.

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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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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I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.
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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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...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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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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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.
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a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
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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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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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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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Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
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You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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Shh he said. Look. Where? Can't you see'um? he whispered. All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you. Me? Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the queen they've been waiting for.
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