Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson is a Chinese-born American writer best known for children's novels. For four different books published 1975-1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of three people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth31 October 1932
CityHuai'an, China
CountryUnited States of America
What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.
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.
It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.
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.
You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter,
Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.
I 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.
Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.
A dream without a plan is just a wish