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
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.
Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.
I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.
I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
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.
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...
Youth is a mortal wound.
Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.
a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
A library is a feast to which we are all invited.
I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?
...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.