As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

—Katherine Paterson

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About Katherine Paterson

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Katherine Paterson (née Womeldorf; born October 31, 1932) is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four...

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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

It was the kind of laughter that caught like briars in her chest and felt very much like pain.

—Katherine Paterson

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What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.

—Jane Green in Mr. Maybe

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

—Flannery O'Connor

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Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

—Ann Aguirre in Wanderlust

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This increasingly intelligent, fast-moving civilization needs to be applying some of its intelligence to things that change slowly.… If we are constantly tending to the immediate, day-to-day problems, we'll lose that sense of the long term, and then we could be really sorry.

—Stewart Brand

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