Author: Katherine Paterson

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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 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'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

- 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

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