More - Katherine Paterson Quotes

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

Katherine Paterson

 Autobiography

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

Katherine Paterson

 Experience

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

Katherine Paterson

 Fear

Youth is a mortal wound.

Katherine Paterson

 Youth

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

Katherine Paterson

 Attitude

[In an atmosphere of liberty, one is as free to not open a book as to open it. Although simple in concept, that is not necessarily an easy condition to maintain.] All 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

 Liberty

All 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

 

It's very hard to believe.

Katherine Paterson

 

It was a wonderful way to be awakened.

Katherine Paterson

 

Youth is a mortal wound

Katherine Paterson

 Youth