"The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else's life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives, that somehow we hadn't been able to see before."
Katherine Paterson is an American novelist known for children's and young-adult literature, including Bridge to Terabithia. She is a two-time Newbery Medal winner.