"When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid."

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Source : Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Katherine Paterson

#Children Quotes #Kids Quotes #People Quotes

“Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.”
“Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.”
“All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.”
“The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization.”

Source : "The Biology of Globalization". World Futures: Vol. 55, Challenges of Evolution at the Turn of the Millennium: Part III: The Chllenges of Globalization and Sustainability, pp. 105-127, 2000.
“Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.237, Vintage
“For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.”
“A good place to start initially would be school plays.”
“I don't even like to show midriff - it's my characters who are always showing midriff.”

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