Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
My father - he was an orthodontist - was supposed to sell his practice and move down to Florida, but that never… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I don't know what my mother was thinking, but she entered me in a Little Miss contest - Little Miss Orange Blossom,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
How do you make your kids read more? It needs to be presented as a joy and a privilege to get to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I was 5 years old, I moved with my mother and brother from Philadelphia to a small town in Florida. People… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Despereaux looked at his father, at his grey-streaked fur and trembling whiskers and his front paws clasped together in front of his… — 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
![“I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents will never show up. That would mess up the fun. I do, however, very much like Kate's idea of having Tony [Fucile] draw their portraits.” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/92a/kate-dicamillo-599_draws_i-m-not-exactly-sure-how-old-the-girls-a_2826945.jpg)
