Katherine Paterson Quotes

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• The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

  Katherine Paterson

  Attitude, Positivity, Names

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

  Katherine Paterson

  Happiness, Children, Attitude

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• It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Reading, Giving

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• The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives, that somehow we hadn’t been able to see before.

  Katherine Paterson

  Real, Book, People

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• To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

  Katherine Paterson

  Inspirational, Fear, Cancer

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

  Katherine Paterson

  Heart, Suicidal, Thinking

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• Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

  Katherine Paterson

  Reading, Garden, Keys

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• 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

  Running, Art, Blood

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• A dream without a plan is just a wish

  Katherine Paterson

  Dream, Wish, Plans

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• As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

  Katherine Paterson

  People, Mind, Literature

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Mean, Unique

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• A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

  Katherine Paterson

  Library, Invited

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• We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

  Katherine Paterson

  Lying, Communication, Heart

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• My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Heart, Ideas

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• Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

  Katherine Paterson

  Way, Kickers, Natural

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• We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story. And somehow, miraculously, a story that comes from deep in my heart calls from a reader that which is deepest in his or her heart, and together from our secret hidden selves we create a story that neither of us could have told alone.

  Katherine Paterson

  Lying, Heart, Mean

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• There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

  Katherine Paterson

  Kids, Littles, Helpful

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

  Katherine Paterson

  Ice Cream, Revision, Milk

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• 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

  Taken, Writing, Looks

  Katherine Paterson (1981). “Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Youth is a mortal wound.

  Katherine Paterson

  Youth, Mortals, Wounds

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

  Katherine Paterson

  Inspirational, Hopeful, Feelings

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• When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget. [...] So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

  Katherine Paterson

  Husband, People, Trying

  "Bridge to Terabithia". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Book, School

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• I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Heart, Ideas

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• A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

  Katherine Paterson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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