Katherine Paterson Quotes - Page 5

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• 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

  Children, Book, Taken

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• It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

  Katherine Paterson

  Eye, Should Have, Missing

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• 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

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• Shh" he said. "Look." "Where?" "Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you." "Me?" "Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the queen they've been waiting for.

  Katherine Paterson

  Beautiful, Girl, Queens

  "Bridge to Terabithia". Book by Katherine Paterson, October 21, 1977.

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• What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

  Katherine Paterson

  Gratitude, Believe, Grateful

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• 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”

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

  Katherine Paterson

  Cost, Ends, Has Beens

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #9”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

  Katherine Paterson

  Details, Fiction, Vastness

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

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• 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

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• a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea, have sputtered out and died by chapter three. For me, novels have invariably come from a complex of ideas that in the beginning seemed to bear no relation to each other, but in the unconscious began mysteriously to merge and grow. Ideas for a novel are like the strong guy lines of a spider web. Without them the silken web cannot be spun.

  Katherine Paterson

  Strong, Writing, Ideas

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

  Katherine Paterson

  Crazy, People, Ordinary

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several seemingly unrelated ideas that somehow magically come together to create the fabric of the story.

  Katherine Paterson

  Years, Ideas, Together

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• We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Book, Reading

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to disagree respectfully, and how, finally, to act on our convictions. We can read for pure delight, and if we do this as a family or classroom or other group we can build wonderful memories.

  Katherine Paterson

  Memories, Thinking, Groups

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good.

  Katherine Paterson

  Math, Years, America

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Book, Rich Life

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

  Katherine Paterson

  Powerful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Farce, Want

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours.

  Katherine Paterson

  Years, Ideas, Imagination

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

  Katherine Paterson

  Publishing House, Firsts, Take A Chance

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

  Katherine Paterson

  Morning, Children, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.

  Katherine Paterson

  Teacher, Book, Reading

  Source: www.hbook.com

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