“My commitment as a writer is to be honest, and I have to be honest all the time, not just when every character behaves well and doesn’t cuss. A novel concerned with redemption will have real characters, and there are real characters who lie and steal and cuss.”
—Katherine Paterson
BBC
Aug 12 2002
11:22 am
“My commitment as a writer is to be honest, and I have to be honest all the time, not just when every character behaves well and doesn’t cuss. A novel concerned with redemption will have real characters, and there are real characters who lie and steal and cuss.”
—Katherine Paterson