Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“He let the light from the upstairs world enter him and fill him. He gasped aloud with the wonder of it.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself),… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
“If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
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… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
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… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
“If you have no intention of loving or being loved then the whole journey is pointless” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have found what I am supposed to do and to get to do it. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
“Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannot always… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
“Dear God, thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
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… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends. We had… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
