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Book Quotes by Kate DiCamillo

44 Book quotes by Kate DiCamillo

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Reading a story together is highlighted as a wonderful thing in Kate DiCamillo’s book quotes. They mention the goal of bringing characters into the same room, the pain of a broken heart, the help of editors in shaping a story, and the excitement of seeing a book become a movie.

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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.

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You have to learn how to write each book.

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Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.

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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

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It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test…

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It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I…

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Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the…

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It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

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Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I…

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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who…

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We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you…

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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…

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The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books…

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Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read…

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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…

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The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is…

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I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me…

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That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the…

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Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the…

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On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did…

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In the beginning of the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Edward is more enamored of himself than he is of…

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I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends.…

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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole.…

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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it…

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From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.

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I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading…

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I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The…

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What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and…

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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

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I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come…

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As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open…

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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me…

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To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things…

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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

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What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love…

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The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.

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There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, "I think that you might like this one [book]." So I'm grateful…

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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…

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We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to…

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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…

“If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.”

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me…

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…

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…

[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I…

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them…

You have to learn how to write each book.

“If you have no intention of loving or being loved then the whole journey is pointless”

I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have found what I am supposed to do and to get to do it.

“Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannot always…

“Dear God, thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the…

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…

I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends. We had…