If you start [in book] with telling people what they are supposed to feel and what they are supposed to experience it simply doesn't work. Because it really has to come from the reader... (Katherine Paterson)

If you start [in book] with telling people what they are supposed to feel and what they are supposed to experience it simply doesn't work. Because it really has to come from the reader...

Katherine Paterson

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