Hope Quotes by Kate DiCamillo

18 Hope quotes by Kate DiCamillo

Kate DiCamillo’s reflections on hope read like gentle stories whispered to the soul. In 18 quotes, her narrative tone invites both children and adults to find comfort in the promise of tomorrow.

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“But she couldn't help it. She did hope. She was hoping. She had been hoping all along.”

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I have no talents. But I do have hope. And wonder. And love. Maybe those are talents?

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I think hope and magic are probably connected.

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And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

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Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.

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You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will…

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In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is,…

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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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“Quest. Say it, reader. Say the word "quest" lout loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so…

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Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full…

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I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different…

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In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption,…

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Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or…

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It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I…

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It's such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don't want to remember how everything is so…

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Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier…

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“There’s no point in going on if you feel that way. No point at all. You must be filled with expectancy. You…

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“A squirrel flies in," said Dr. Meescham. "This I did not expect at all. It is what I love about life, that…

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

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You have to learn how to write each book.

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

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

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