Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it. — 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
“Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied” — 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
the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end… — 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
As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are… — 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
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… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America.… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't… — 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 problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have… — 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
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
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 just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't… — 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 Image
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 Image
Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
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 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 comes closest. — 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: Read for… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations. — 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 that I… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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