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Katherine Paterson Quote: “As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Sometimes you need to give people something that’s for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they’re not.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don’t even know it, who wouldn’t believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “If you’re a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you’re watching a lot. You’re trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Jess’s feelings about Leslie’s father poked up like a canker sore. You keep biting it, and it gets bigger and worse instead of better.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “I was not happy in any way that would make sense to most people, but I was, for the first time in my life, deeply content with what life was giving me. Part.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “For the only time in my life I would be living with a chain-smoking semi-invalid whose chief point of pride in life was his membership in the Ku Klux Clan.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Even a prince may be a fool.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Don’t tell me no one ever gave you a chance. You don’t need anything given to you. You can make your own chances. But first you have to know what you’re after, my dear.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm’s bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the creative mind of my readers. I had my turn to make of it what I would, now it is their turn.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “It had never occurred to Jess that parents were meant to be understood any more than the safe at the Millsburg First National was sitting around begging him to crack it.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process – only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos...”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “I just can’t get the poetry of the trees,” he said.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not wear them like fancy dress.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “But I had never caused my parents ‘a minute’s worry’. Didn’t they know that worry proves you care? Didn’t they realize that I needed their worry to assure myself that I was something?”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Leslie was one of those people who sat quietly at her desk, never whispering or daydreaming or chewing gum, doing beautiful schoolwork, and yet her brain was so full of mischief that if the teacher could have once seen through that mask of perfection, she would have thrown her out in horror.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a book that will deeply affect someone.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “The work reveals the creator – and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn’t believe in having a TV set, it was up to their kids to protect them.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “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 we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Drive them out utterly, so they may never return and prey upon our people.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Like God in the Bible, they looked at what they had made and found it very good.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask “What is truth?” and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace – fear and selfishness.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Listening to that woman was like licking melted ice cream off the carton.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Then Jess gave himself over to the numbness that was buzzing to be let out from a corner of his brain.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Are you tired, Mary?” I asked. She raised her weary gaze to me. “My socks are tired,” she said. “And my shoes won’t even walk.” To this day whenever in our family we want to express complete exhaustion, we employ Mary’s eloquent description of her socks.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “Jess drew the way some people drink whiskey. The peace would start at the top of his muddled brain and seep down through his tired and tensed-up body.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “She jerked to life, her eyes wide open. “Why did that woman give me away?” Then it all began to pour out. Why had she been given away? We’d never told her she was a foundling.”
Katherine Paterson Quote: “Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.”
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