If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In a first draft, I concentrate on moving forward and trying not to panic. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal! — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the… — 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
If you sit down and read with your kid, either having your child read to you or you reading to your child… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Well, you know, I've been in so many writing workshops, writing classes, and to the right of me and to the left… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I… — 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
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