A 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 PatersonOur fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.
Katherine PatersonIt was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.
Katherine PatersonDeath is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.
Katherine Paterson