Katherine Paterson Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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

• You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

  Katherine Paterson

  Book, Writing, Fighting

• 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

• A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

  Katherine Paterson

  Book, Kind, Changed

• All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Book, Taken

• 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

• 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

  Believe, Book, Technology

• Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.

  Katherine Paterson

  Teacher, Book, Reading

  Source: www.hbook.com

• a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

  Katherine Paterson

  Art, Book, Firsts

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

• We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Book, Reading

  Source: www.hbook.com

• 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

  Book, Creative, Mind

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

• The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Book, Rich Life

  Source: www.hbook.com

• Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.

  Katherine Paterson

  Fun, Book, Doors

  "My Term As The National Ambassador For Young People’s Literature" by Katherine Paterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

• The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much the same way you nourish the gift of writing - you read, think, talk, look, listen, hate, fear, love, weep - and bring all of your life like a sieve to what you read. That which is not worthy of your gift will quickly pass through, but the gold remains.

  Katherine Paterson

  Hate, Book, Reading

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

• I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

  Katherine Paterson

  Powerful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.hbook.com

• 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

  Art, Believe, Book

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

• He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.

  Katherine Paterson

  Art, Children, Book

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Book, Adults

• 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

• 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

  Moving, Book, Thinking

  "Beloved YA Author Katherine Paterson Shares Wisdom". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 13, 2013.

• I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

  Katherine Paterson

  Book, Two, Media

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