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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 24 quotes by Katherine Paterson Katherine Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is an American author best known for children's novels. For four different books published 1975-1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of three people to win the two major international awards: for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998. For her career contribution to "children's and young... Read full biography of Katherine Paterson → 1 2 Ctrl → I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe. 0 Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark young adult novels these days.... → 0 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... → 0 If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven? 0 I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to... → 0 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... → 0 A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning. 0 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. 0 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... → 0 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.' 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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