Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“There is somebody who loves me," said Despereaux. "And I love her and that is the only thing that matters to me.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Love is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“It was a singular sensation to be held so gently and yet so fiercely, to be stared down at with so much… — 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
Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“ Words for Flora Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it — sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think our job is to trust our readers. I think our job is to see and to let ourselves be seen.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have a part-time dog. I'm actually an aunt to a dog, and he's an awful dog, but I love him. He's… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“There’s no point in going on if you feel that way. No point at all. You must be filled with expectancy. You… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have no talents. But I do have hope. And wonder. And love. Maybe those are talents? — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it- sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts, eggs sunny-side up- you are… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“It was a singular sensation to be held so gently and yet so fiercely, to be stared down at with so much… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Despereaux thought that he might faint with the pleasure of someone referring to his ears as small and lovely. He laid his… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Minnesota has been so good to me and so pleased that I love Minnesota. — 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