Books Quotes by 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…

— Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

— Katherine Paterson

“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.”

— Katherine Paterson

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

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the…

— Katherine Paterson

I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

— Katherine Paterson

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

— Katherine Paterson

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

— Katherine Paterson

Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the…

— Katherine Paterson

If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are…

— Katherine Paterson

The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several…

— Katherine Paterson

Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the…

— Katherine Paterson

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No…

— Katherine Paterson

“Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to…

— Katherine Paterson

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to…

— Katherine Paterson

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And…

— Katherine Paterson

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

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

I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to…

— Katherine Paterson

Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark…

— Katherine Paterson

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

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off…

— Katherine Paterson

We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to…

— Katherine Paterson

A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter,…

— Katherine Paterson

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

— 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…

— 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…

— Katherine Paterson

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

— 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

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a…

— Katherine Paterson

Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the…

— Katherine Paterson

He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim…

— Katherine Paterson

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

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch…

— Katherine Paterson

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

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited…

— Katherine Paterson

I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will…

— Katherine Paterson