Katherine Paterson Quotes

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You'...

You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with ...

The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and...

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

Hope ... is not a feeling it is something you do.

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s lif...

Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.

She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light

I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what...

...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a tra...

The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken ...

Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direc...

Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his bod...

You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. Bu...

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

It's crazy isn't it?" She shook her head. "You have to believe it, but you hate it. I don't have to ...

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people...

My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in...

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turne...

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Bes...

On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glor...

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,but I have to turn it into fiction in o...