I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.” — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And… — 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
...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears. — 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 like to write about a lot of things, which is why my books are different. This is probably why I don't… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the… — 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
The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so… — 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
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written… — 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
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the… — 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
