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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language. — 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
I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound… — 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
When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that… — 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
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