The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way.

Katherine Paterson
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More Quotes By Katherine Paterson
  1. Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.

  2. You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

  3. I love revisions… We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

  4. Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

  5. You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.

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