Katherine Paterson Quotes

Youth is a mortal wound.
— Katherine Paterson Jacob Have I Loved

The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.
— Katherine Paterson The Spying Heart: More Thoughts on Reading and Writing Books for Children

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A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
— Katherine Paterson Gates of Excellence: On Reading and Writing Books for Children

novels

I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
— Katherine Paterson The Spying Heart

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