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## 출처: http://www.ipl.org/div/askauthor/paterson.html
People are always asking me questions I don't have answers for. One is, "When did you first know that you wanted to become a writer?" The fact is that I never wanted to be a writer, at least not when I was a child, or even a young woman. Today I want very much to be a writer. But when I was ten, I wanted to be either a movie star or a missionary. When I was twenty, I wanted to get married and have lots of children. : 선교에 대한 꿈이 있었다는 사실을 통해 책에서 GOD과 구원에 대한 언급이 있었던 이유를 알 수 있었다.
My dream of becoming a movie star never came true, but I did a lot of acting all through school, and the first writing for which I got any applause consisted of plays I wrote for my sixth-grade friends to act out. : 직접 연극을 하고, 연극 대본을 쓰는 것으로 작가 활동을 시작한 것 같다.
On the way to becoming a missionary, I spent a year teaching in a rural school in northern Virginia, where almost all of my children were like Jesse Aarons. I'll never forget that wonderful class. A teacher I met at a meeting in Virginia recently told me that when she read BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA to her class, one of the girls told her that her mother had been in that Lovettsville sixth grade. I am very happy that those children, now grown-up with children of their own, know about the book. I hope that they can tell by reading it how much they meant to me. : 한 엄마와 딸, 이렇게 여러 세대가 함께 읽는 책이다.
Do I like being a writer? I love it. I often tell my husband that it's the only job I could hold now. I'm spoiled. I work at home in my own study, wearing whatever I please. I never have to call in sick. From time to time, I get to schools and other places where I meet delightful people who love books as much as I do. : 현재 작가로서의 자신의 삶을 사랑하는 모습이 보기 좋다. |
첫댓글 영화보고 울고 책보고 가슴이 훈훈했던 기억이 있어요. 수업시간에 활용한다면 액티비티로 현실의 두려움을 극복하고 좀더 자유롭고, 자신이 원하는 세상을 만들어 보기 하면 어떨까요.자신만의 Terabithia 같은...
읽어보고 싶은 책이네요..:)