I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm in trouble if they can't, because everyone's taller than me, and if that's true, that means I can't have any friends!… — 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 get my inspiration from looking at the world and paying attention to people and just looking closely. Also from reading. I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, "I think that you might like this one [book]." So I'm grateful… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When you write for kids, people always ask you what lesson you mean to impart. I don't think adult writers get that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I love adventurous travel. I also love pancakes, and making pancakes for other people. You would definitely find me in the airy… — 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
I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I was 5 years old, I moved with my mother and brother from Philadelphia to a small town in Florida. People… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now. — 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
During the night, while Bull and Lucy slept, Edward, with ever-open eyes, stared up at the constellations. He said their names, and… — 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