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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.
Katherine Paterson
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Katherine Paterson
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
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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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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.
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We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.
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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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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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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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The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several seemingly unrelated ideas that somehow magically come together to create the fabric of the story.
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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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Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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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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Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
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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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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
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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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To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
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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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The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
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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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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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It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.
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