Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.
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 PatersonI 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 PatersonYou don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.
Katherine PatersonI woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.
Katherine PatersonA 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