268 Quotes by Katherine Paterson

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.

Read 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.

Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

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.