Book Quote by Katherine Paterson Download Open image “The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.” — Katherine Paterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Children Children 's books Children'S Book Friendship Given Life Rich Rich life Wonderful Wonderful friendship World
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I think back on all the great people in my life, from my parents to my teachers, and the wonderful influence they had on… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Growing up, books were my best friends, just because I didn't really have a lot of peers as deaf kids. So I read, and… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the… — Ellen Douglas Copy Share Image
I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I wrote the children's books, and those were wonderful tributes to my life as a daughter and a mother and just a thank-you to… — Ainsley Earhardt Copy Share Image
As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was a very quiet kid who didn't feel normal being outgoing and running around, so all the beauty that was in my life,… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books… — Mike Greenberg Copy Share Image
The world of children's books is a very friendly, decent place to be. It's full of people who are desperate to enlighten, interest and… — Michael Rosen 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