Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
How do you make your kids read more? It needs to be presented as a joy and a privilege to get to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I… — 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
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Whenever I am with a group of kids, I always ask them, 'How many of you know about the summer reading program… — 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
“Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I… — 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
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible. — 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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