I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid. — 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
You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional… — 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 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
The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I… — 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
“I had no study in those days, not even a desk or file or bookcase to call mine alone…It might have happened… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to… — 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
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
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
“The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.” — 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
As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time… — 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
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
I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing. — 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
The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“What is man—and of course the writer means all of us puny little insignificant creatures—what is a mere human being that God… — 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
![“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 writing of work worthy of publication] had I had a room of my own and fewer children, but somehow I doubt it. For as I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very…” quote by Katherine Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc8/katherine-paterson-2365_education_i-had-no-study-in-those-days-not-even-a_294218.jpg)
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