The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was:… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that,… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share
We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share
Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share
Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share
Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share
I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share
“I had no study in those days, not even a desk or file or bookcase to call mine alone…It might have happened sooner [the… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share
The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share
One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share
“We need a place," she said, "just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share
