Katherine Paterson Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

  Katherine Paterson

  Heart, Suicidal, Thinking

• I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Heart, Ideas

• I think, she began quietly, I think we want... not just bread for our bellies. We want more than only bread. We want food for our hearts, our souls. We want- how to say it? We want, you know- Puccini music.... we want for our beautiful children some beauty. She leaned over and kissed the curl on her finger. We want roses.

  Katherine Paterson

  Beautiful, Children, Heart

  Katherine Paterson (2008). “Bread and Roses, Too”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story. And somehow, miraculously, a story that comes from deep in my heart calls from a reader that which is deepest in his or her heart, and together from our secret hidden selves we create a story that neither of us could have told alone.

  Katherine Paterson

  Lying, Heart, Mean

• My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.

  Katherine Paterson

  Heart, Looks, World

• We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

  Katherine Paterson

  Lying, Communication, Heart

• My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Heart, Ideas

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