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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. — Katherine Paterson

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied. — Katherine Paterson

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful. — Katherine Paterson

Jess drew the way some people drink whiskey. — Katherine Paterson

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

Sometimes you have to favor your heel, even if it means you're hurting your toe. — Katherine Paterson

Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years. — Katherine Paterson

She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light — Katherine Paterson

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

What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order. — Katherine Paterson

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't. — Katherine Paterson

Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child. — Katherine Paterson

My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart. — Katherine Paterson

He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them. — Katherine Paterson

Then Jess gave himself over to the numbness that was buzzing to be let out from a corner of his brain. — Katherine Paterson

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations. — Katherine Paterson

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful. — Katherine Paterson

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you. — Katherine Paterson

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

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven? — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

Leslie was more than his friend. She was his other, more exciting self - his way to Terabithia and all the worlds beyond. — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me. — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry. — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning. — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say. — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given. — Katherine Paterson

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened. — Katherine Paterson

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire. — Katherine Paterson

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life. — Katherine Paterson

A colleague of hers had discovered that the Biblical sentence found in John 4:7 contained all the sounds in nearly every known language. — Katherine Paterson

Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August. — Katherine Paterson

A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. — Katherine Paterson

Drive them out utterly, so they may never return and prey upon our people. — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

Ain't 'cha gonna run?" she asked.
"No," he said, shoving the sheet away. "I'm gonna fly. — Katherine Paterson

The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything. — Katherine Paterson

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter, — Katherine Paterson

In each of the separate sections Mother would put a different treat - sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, sesame cookies, and peanuts. — Katherine Paterson

You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up. — Katherine Paterson

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe. — Katherine Paterson

It seemed to Gilly that everything in this world that you can't stand to wait one extra minute for is always late. — Katherine Paterson

I don't care. I don't care". He was crying now, crying so hard he could barely breathe. — Katherine Paterson

We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds ... We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me. — Katherine Paterson

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life. — Katherine Paterson

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes. — Katherine Paterson

Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it. — Katherine Paterson

A work that intends to be art must first be entertaining. — Katherine Paterson

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength. — Katherine Paterson

Brenda's pouting voice broke in, Your girl friend's dead, and Momma thought you was dead, too. — Katherine Paterson

St. Faith's, as she called her compound, was financed entirely by donations, some from friends abroad and some from admiring Chinese benefactors. — Katherine Paterson

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate. — Katherine Paterson

Youth is a mortal wound. — Katherine Paterson

Dammit, Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me. — Katherine Paterson

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned. — Katherine Paterson

A library is a feast to which we are all invited. — Katherine Paterson

Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path. — Katherine Paterson

Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures. — Katherine Paterson

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not. — Katherine Paterson

a dream without a plan is just a wish — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

Life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough — Katherine Paterson

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 — Katherine Paterson

He nodded vigorously. Anything was better than promising to fight Janice Avery. — Katherine Paterson

It was a three-dimensional nightmare version of some of his own drawings. — Katherine Paterson

The conquering army had perpetrated untold atrocities. The Japanese had occupied my home and twice forced us to leave the land I loved. — Katherine Paterson

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? — Katherine Paterson

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. — Katherine Paterson

Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it. — Katherine Paterson

February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down. — Katherine Paterson

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.' — Katherine Paterson

Could be a magic country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging across on this enchanted rope. — Katherine Paterson

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections. — Katherine Paterson

You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like. — Katherine Paterson

Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open — Katherine Paterson

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do. — Katherine Paterson

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing. — Katherine Paterson

He could usually get outdoors without waking Momma or Ellie or Brenda or Joyce Ann. — Katherine Paterson

I just can't get the poetry of the trees," he said. — Katherine Paterson

So we children must be thankful to the imperious Dr. Young for making it possible for our parents to meet and our subsequent births. — Katherine Paterson

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed. — Katherine Paterson

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness. — Katherine Paterson

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared. — Katherine Paterson

But he was long-legged for a ten-year-old, — Katherine Paterson

Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom. — Katherine Paterson

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream? — Katherine Paterson