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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.
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 seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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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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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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It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.
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A dream without a plan is just a wish
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I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.
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It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.
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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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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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. . . 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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Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.
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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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...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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We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.
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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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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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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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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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You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.
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