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 Read Quote
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.’ Katherine Paterson Read Quote
I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you’re not the center of the universe. Katherine Paterson Read Quote
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 human spirits. Katherine Paterson Read 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 Read Quote
I’m a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place. Katherine Paterson Read Quote
I like to write about a lot of things, which is why my books are different. This is probably why I don’t like to write sequels, but chiefly I like to write about people. Katherine Paterson Read Quote
I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing. Katherine Paterson Read Quote
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 whatever the setting. Katherine Paterson Read Quote
The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears. Katherine Paterson Read Quote
