I think the book is going to be who you are. If you’re a person of faith that will come out in the book. It’s not something that you stick on or worry if you’re clear enough. Because the minute you start doing that you’ve stopped telling a story and started writing propaganda. I think propaganda has gotten a bad name; it simply means you have something you believe that you want to share. <…> But that’s different from a story, where you don’t start with an answer that you want to share: you start with a question that you need to explore. And you do that in the form of a story.
Источник: A Talk with Katherine Paterson http://ptpopcorn.com/index.php/2007/talk-with-paterson/. ptpopcorn.com (09.02.07).
Кэтрин Патерсон: Цитаты о книгах
Кэтрин Патерсон есть американская писательница. Откройте для себя интересные цитаты о книги.«Иакова Я возлюбил»
My admittedly limited experience on the internet and with computer “information”, has revealed that this is a rather shallow sort of knowledge and impersonal sort of human connection. I think great books and real live human beings do a better job of making us wise, compassionate people.
If you start [in book] with telling people what they are supposed to feel and what they are supposed to experience it simply doesn’t work. Because it really has to come from the reader…