Katherine Paterson Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 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

• 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

• ...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Writing, Children's Literature

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

• I think, she began quietly, I think we want... not just bread for our bellies. We want more than only bread. We want food for our hearts, our souls. We want- how to say it? We want, you know- Puccini music.... we want for our beautiful children some beauty. She leaned over and kissed the curl on her finger. We want roses.

  Katherine Paterson

  Beautiful, Children, Heart

  Katherine Paterson (2008). “Bread and Roses, Too”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

• 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

• 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

• When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Kids, People

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

• I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

  Katherine Paterson

  Morning, Children, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

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

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Reading, Giving

• 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

• 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

• 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

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