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life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

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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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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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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...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.
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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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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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Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
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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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...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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The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.
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On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.
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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
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It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.
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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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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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Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
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I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.
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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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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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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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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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