Katherine Paterson Quotes
Top 95 wise famous quotes and sayings by Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Win was flabbergasted when he heard me say to the dog: We don't put our paws on the table while folks are eating, Manch.
Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.
It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.
What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.
Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
Then Jess gave himself over to the numbness that was buzzing to be let out from a corner of his brain.
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,
but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
Leslie was more than his friend. She was his other, more exciting self - his way to Terabithia and all the worlds beyond.
I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.
I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
He lived long enough to give the chaplain his name - John Goetchius - but died before he could tell the kind man where his home was.
soldiers on the banks of the canal, they looked carefully to see whether they were Japanese or Chinese so they'd know which pass to pull out.
I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.
The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.
I love revisions ... We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.
You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.
You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.
Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
A colleague of hers had discovered that the Biblical sentence found in John 4:7 contained all the sounds in nearly every known language.
The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.
In each of the separate sections Mother would put a different treat - sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, sesame cookies, and peanuts.
I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
It seemed to Gilly that everything in this world that you can't stand to wait one extra minute for is always late.
We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds ... We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.
I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.
Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.
It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.
St. Faith's, as she called her compound, was financed entirely by donations, some from friends abroad and some from admiring Chinese benefactors.
Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures.
Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.
Jess's feelings about Leslie's father poked up like a canker sore. You keep biting it, and it gets bigger and worse instead of better.
John softened, and many years later he said to me, "You know, if we were ever to divorce, I get the cat." There is a
The conquering army had perpetrated untold atrocities. The Japanese had occupied my home and twice forced us to leave the land I loved.
If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?
I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.
Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'
Could be a magic country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging across on this enchanted rope.
Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.