It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When you write for kids, people always ask you what lesson you mean to impart. I don't think adult writers get that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn… — 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
I was a kid who loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on. I didn't have one favorite… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Everybody reading the same book at the same time pulls people together. It does start a conversation. If you're going to read… — 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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