You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
Katherine PatersonReading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
Katherine PatersonWhen 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 PatersonI do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.
Katherine Paterson