Katherine Paterson Quotes - Page 4

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• Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.

  Katherine Paterson

  Life, Puff, Littles

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down in unison with the rest of the congregation but his mind numb and floating, not really thinking or dreaming but at least free.

  Katherine Paterson

  Dream, School, Thinking

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.

  Katherine Paterson

  May, Born, Guts

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

  Katherine Paterson

  Thinking, Cry, Wells

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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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.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Revision, Our Lives

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• Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

  Katherine Paterson

  Exercise, Imagination, Humanity

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• The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.

  Katherine Paterson

  Winter, Lasts, Taste

  Katherine Paterson (1978). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Avon Books

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• Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.

  Katherine Paterson

  Years, Hundred

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• Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

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  Sorry, Mistake, People

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• Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

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  Loneliness, Ducks, Mates

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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.

  Katherine Paterson

  Running, War, Towns

  Katherine Paterson (2003). “Preacher's Boy”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

  Katherine Paterson

  Believe, Book, Technology

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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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  Kids, Trying, Normal

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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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  Reading, Imagination, Creative

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• I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Love To Read

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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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  Humanity, Together, Trouble

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #19”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Writing, Fiction, World

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much the same way you nourish the gift of writing - you read, think, talk, look, listen, hate, fear, love, weep - and bring all of your life like a sieve to what you read. That which is not worthy of your gift will quickly pass through, but the gold remains.

  Katherine Paterson

  Hate, Book, Reading

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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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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  Art, Children, Book

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  People, February, Reason

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

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  Mistake, Path, Honorable

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• If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.

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  Art, Believe, Book

  Katherine Paterson (1981). “Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

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  Book, Two, Media

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

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  Tough, Supposed To Be

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #16”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who seemed to think I could write something worth publishing was my loyal husband. But I always remembered the professor from graduate school who urged me to write and who recommended me for that first writing assignment in 1964. When I protested to Sara Little that I didn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world, she gently reminded me that if I didn't dare mediocrity, I would never write anything at all.

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  Husband, Writing, School

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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