To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Katherine Paterson in Jacob Have I Loved
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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 in The Spying Heart (1989)
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All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our 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.

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