Katherine Paterson Quotes

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

Katherine Paterson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 31, 1932

Topics

LifeExperienceImaginationCreative

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.

Jo Bonner

StormSupportPresidentRiceAlabama

It would be too glib, not a hundred per cent true, to say that my father's career as a banker was what made me a writer. But it would be slightly true, and it was certainly the case that his work as a banker made me see that the trade-offs people make between their work and their lives are often badly skewed.

John Lanchester

WorkFatherPeopleMeCareerTrue

'Prison Break' really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.

Robert Knepper

MePrisonBreakSomebodyChanged

I'm trying as hard as I can to keep pushing the boundaries of what a woman is capable of doing. And it turns out there's a lot we can do. There's a lot we can speak about.

Rita Moreno

WomanSpeakDoingTryingI CanHard

A lot of people think the body is just about genetics, but the right approach can change its shape.

Mary Helen Bowers

ChangePeopleThinkBodyGenetics

As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.

Michael Mann

TimeBestExperienceSpaceNight

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

Joseph Rotblat

HistoryTimeManRealityDevelopment

Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

Shawn Colvin

ChangeThinkYouWayRecoveryStay

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

Richard K. Morgan

ScienceShadowBlackThinkLong

It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.

Mark Frost

CultureInterestingYouCreateKind

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

Maria Semple

TruthTogetherHandsSomethingAbout

I think a lot of the time there isn't such a black-and-white difference between what's a platform and what's an app. It's really just like the most important apps become platforms.

Mark Zuckerberg

TimeThinkBlack-And-WhiteImportant

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