...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
Katherine PatersonTags: children-s-literature writing-for-children
Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.
Katherine PatersonImpressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.
Katherine PatersonTags: inspirational
Sometimes you have to favor your heel, even if it means you're hurting your toe.
Katherine PatersonI love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.
Katherine PatersonShe had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.
Katherine PatersonThat was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn't believe in having a TV set, it was up to their kids to protect them.
Katherine PatersonSitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
Katherine PatersonRead for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.
Katherine PatersonThus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,
but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
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