“ 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- Copy
“ Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
“ You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask "What is truth?" and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask "What is truth?" and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf that work I abhor then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives, that somehow we hadn’t been able to see before. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf that work I abhor then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives, that somehow we hadn’t been able to see before. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another. ”
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“ The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another. ”
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“ Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another. ”
- Katherine Paterson- Copy
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“ A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. ”
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“ The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. ”
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“ Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another. ”
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“ Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another. ”
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