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
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 remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Edward is more enamored of himself than he is of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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
When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have… — 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
As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open… — 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
We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The… — 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
Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it… — 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
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
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
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
From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts. — 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
There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, "I think that you might like this one [book]." So I'm grateful… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who… — 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 Image
“If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.” — 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 telling me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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 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 tell, which… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“If you have no intention of loving or being loved then the whole journey is pointless” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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