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
I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“But she couldn't help it. She did hope. She was hoping. She had been hoping all along.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll) — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Flora’s heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside her.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart...And he is up there with no one… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started.… — 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
My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those… — 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 is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task. — 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
Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned… — 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
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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