268 Quotes by Katherine Paterson

Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.

Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.

The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.

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.

You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.

The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way.

The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.

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.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.