Author: Katherine Paterson

Quotes

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

- 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 and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

- Katherine Paterson

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

- Katherine Paterson

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

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

- Katherine Paterson

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

- Katherine Paterson

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.

- Katherine Paterson

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

- Katherine Paterson

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

- Katherine Paterson

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

- Katherine Paterson

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