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
I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I… — 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
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
When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come… — 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
The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me… — 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
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole.… — 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
The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things… — 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
The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books… — 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