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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.
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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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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It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.
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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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Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.
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A dream without a plan is just a wish
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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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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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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
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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 think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
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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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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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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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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 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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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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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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To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
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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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