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Books Quotes by Kate DiCamillo

75 Books quotes by Kate DiCamillo

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A small, sickly mouse falling in love shows how big feelings can fit in tiny characters. Kate DiCamillo’s quotes remind us that reading with parents makes stories feel wonderful, and that each book aims to bring all its characters into one warm room. She also loves how illustrations add extra magic to kids’ books.

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You have to learn how to write each book.

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“A great reader makes a great writer”

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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.

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I read whatever the publisher sends me.

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Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.

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Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.

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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it…

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I think our job is to trust our readers. I think our job is to see and to let ourselves be seen.…

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From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.

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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me…

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I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The…

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I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading…

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Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's…

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That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the…

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I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week,…

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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading…

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But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in…

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I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to…

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I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me…

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“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies…

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Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or…

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“At the last moment, Antoinette came out of her faint and shouted one word to her child. That word, reader, was adieu...…

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The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is…

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It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I…

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“They lived happily ever after. It said so. In the book. They were the last words on the page. Happily ever after.…

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Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the…

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There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in…

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I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends.…

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In the beginning of the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Edward is more enamored of himself than he is of…

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As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open…

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I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come…

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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

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If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible.

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It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the…

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Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

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It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test…

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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole.…

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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who…

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In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote…

“If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.”

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me…

Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to…

It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which…

[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I…

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them…

You have to learn how to write each book.

“If you have no intention of loving or being loved then the whole journey is pointless”

I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have found what I am supposed to do and to get to do it.

“Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannot always…

“Dear God, thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the…

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by…

I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends. We had…