Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And most certainly,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one… — 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
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
“And I have some poetry that I would like to recite to you in honor of the recent, um, transformations in your… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Edward thought about everything that had happened to him in his short life. What kind of adventures would you have if you… — 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