Katherine Paterson Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

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

  Katherine Paterson

  Attitude, Positivity, Names

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

• 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

  Real, Writing, Order

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

• It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

  Katherine Paterson

  Happiness, Children, Attitude

• Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.

  Katherine Paterson

  People, Giving, Feel Good

  Katherine Paterson (1977). “Bridge to Terabithia”

• You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

  Katherine Paterson

  Giving Up, Care, Just Give Up

  Katherine Paterson (2003). “The Same Stuff as Stars”, p.19, Oxford University Press, USA

• Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious. They are like water, which gives life and growth and refreshment, but because it has always been abundant, we treat it cheaply. We waste it; we pollute it, and doctor it. Later we blame the quality of the water because we have misused it.

  Katherine Paterson

  Doctors, Giving, Water

• We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. And in ancient thought the name itself has power, so that to know someone's name is to have a certain power over him. And in some societies, as you know, there was a public name and a real or secret name, which would not be revealed to others.

  Katherine Paterson

  Attitude, Real, Names

  Katherine Paterson (1981). “Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children”, Dutton Juvenile

• It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Reading, Giving

• When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Kids, People

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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