Katherine Paterson Quotes

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Katherine Paterson

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• I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • House
  • Feeling
  • Drawing

• I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Forever

• Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Different
  • History
  • Hope

• It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Happy
  • Wanted
  • Made

• Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Leaders

• The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Spring
  • Roots
  • Satisfied

• I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Great
  • She
  • Child

• I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Football
  • Moment
  • Racism

• Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Fall
  • Hurt
  • Learn

• Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Earth
  • Food

• I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Language
  • Write
  • Discipline

• Boxing is a noble sport.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Boxing
  • Sport
  • Noble

• I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Finish

• You have created a monster and it will destroy you.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Monster

• When I want something to happen - or not happen - I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid. I found the opportunity.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Opportunity

• Is there a thinker apart from thought?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Now therefore while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Time
  • May
  • Power

• The logical picture of the facts is the thought. (3)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Picture

• Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Together
  • Control
  • Government

• And they'd [the Death Eaters] love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Death

• But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Voice
  • Songs
  • Key

• I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

  

  Anita Shreve
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Book

• Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

  

  Katherine Paterson