There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt. — 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
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I loved school; I loved the rules, and I liked there being right answers, wrong answers, and being able to give the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the… — 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
In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play,… — 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… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and… — 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
It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I… — 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
I show up and try, but I may have to ask myself if I need to wait and let myself regenerate and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began with a friend giving me a rabbit doll - forgive me, Edward, for using that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he… — 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
The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your… — 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
It's a weird kind of disconnect that this whole story [he Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] grew around a real doll of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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
the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a… — 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
When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have… — 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
In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter."… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, "What are you working on now?" And I said I was writing a story… — 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
![“Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and wrote the stories "out loud" together. We yelled at each other and made each other laugh. It was a lot of fun.” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/455/kate-dicamillo-599_every-morning_every-morning-for-i-don-t-know-how-long_2433344.jpg)
![“Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a…” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b02/kate-dicamillo-599_evening_alison-mcghee-and-i-have-known-each-othe_1790961.jpg)
![“It's a weird kind of disconnect that this whole story [he Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] grew around a real doll of mine, and here he is, with his "Edward" expression on his face. It's kind of reality bumping into fantasy.” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4c6/kate-dicamillo-599_dolls_it-s-a-weird-kind-of-disconnect-that-thi_1733727.jpg)
![“We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/820/kate-dicamillo-599_book_we-me-and-alison-mcghee-probably-wouldn_848404.jpg)
![“[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, "What are you working on now?" And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said "It…” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cfe/kate-dicamillo-599_businessman_a-businessmen-in-plane-after-9-11-asked_2918488.jpg)
![“[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/972/kate-dicamillo-599_answers_he-had-the-soul-of-a-poet-and-because-of_48829.jpg)
