{"author":"Katherine Paterson","author_id":"Katherine+Paterson","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"It's crazy isn't it?' She shook her head. 'You have to believe it, but you hate it. I don't have to believe it, and I think it's beautiful.' She shook her head again. 'It's crazy.","author":"Katherine Paterson","tags":["jesus-christ","the-bible"],"id":176,"author_id":"Katherine+Paterson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Katherine Paterson","tags":["character","imagination","literature"],"id":39433,"author_id":"Katherine+Paterson"},{"text":"Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.","author":"Katherine Paterson","tags":["fear","shame"],"id":67014,"author_id":"Katherine+Paterson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Katherine Paterson","tags":["life"],"id":96976,"author_id":"Katherine+Paterson"},{"text":"Hope ... Is not a feeling  it is something you do.","author":"Katherine Paterson","tags":["hope"],"id":105225,"author_id":"Katherine+Paterson"},{"text":"She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light.","author":"Katherine Paterson","tags":["bravery","scared"],"id":106196,"author_id":"Katherine+Paterson"},{"text":"If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.","author":"Katherine Paterson","tags":["weird","trying","you "],"id":109788,"author_id":"Katherine+Paterson"},{"text":"The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.","author":"Katherine Paterson","tags":["energy","inspirational","resources","writers-on-writing","writing"],"id":124712,"author_id":"Katherine+Paterson"},{"text":"Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.","author":"Katherine Paterson","tags":["autobiography","books","writing"],"id":130668,"author_id":"Katherine+Paterson"},{"text":"You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.","author":"Katherine Paterson","tags":["death","life","moving-on"],"id":141461,"author_id":"Katherine+Paterson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}