Author: Katherine Paterson

Quotes

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

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

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

- 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

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

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

- 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

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

- 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

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