Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.

Katherine Paterson's Popular Quotes

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

- Katherine Paterson

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

- Katherine Paterson

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

- Katherine Paterson

A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is…

- Katherine Paterson

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- some…

- Katherine Paterson

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.

- Katherine Paterson

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

- Katherine Paterson

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

- Katherine Paterson

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

- Katherine Paterson