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
In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It's often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good:… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound… — 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
![“Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b5/kate-dicamillo-599_dinner_holly-mcghee-said-i-should-come-to-dinne_2067097.jpg)
![“[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good: their three-cheese ravioli. But I can't remember what I said to Alison that night that made her laugh so hard. But she got me right away and I got her right away.” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e35/kate-dicamillo-599_cheese_our-first-dinner-with-alison-mcghee-was_2392668.jpg)
![“I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound like whiners - about how hard writing is, and how we didn't have a story to work on. Alison said, 'Why don't we work on writing something together,' and I said, 'Eh, I don't know…” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a2d/kate-dicamillo-599_complaining_i-was-over-at-alison-s-mcghee-i-think-we_2864462.jpg)
![“[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/972/kate-dicamillo-599_answers_he-had-the-soul-of-a-poet-and-because-of_48829.jpg)
