Book Quote by Katherine Paterson Download Open image “I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.” — Katherine Paterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Firsts Influence Kind Nine Nine years Powerful Writing Years
Writing has been one of the most powerful influences in my life and it always has been since I was a little girl. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I can say without doubt, that reading has had a huge influence on my life. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read. — Ashleigh Brilliant 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 in my… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books. — David McCullough 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 think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image