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 PatersonThe difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos.
Katherine PatersonI have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.
Katherine PatersonOur fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.
Katherine Paterson