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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.

Katherine Paterson

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Katherine Paterson
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
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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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Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
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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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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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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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I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
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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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You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
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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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February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.
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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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a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
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We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.
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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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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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The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.
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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
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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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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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