It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.
Katherine PatersonSome folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
Katherine PatersonIf you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
Katherine PatersonAll of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
Katherine Paterson