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
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
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
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
A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter,… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter, — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up… — 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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