Writer Quotes by Katherine Paterson

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

— Katherine Paterson

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

— Katherine Paterson

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

— Katherine Paterson

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

— Katherine Paterson

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

— 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

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

— Katherine Paterson

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was:…

— Katherine Paterson

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

— 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

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

— Katherine Paterson

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Katherine Paterson

The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much…

— 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

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

— 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

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of…

— 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

A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied…

— 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

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so…

— Katherine Paterson

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

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

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

— 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