Katherine Paterson - Child Quotes

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When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

Katherine Paterson

Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

Katherine Paterson