I actually participated in a Little Miss Orange Blossom Contest when was I was seven or eight years old. I remember standing… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a character, when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters and I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything… — 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
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
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 think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think we sent Tony Fucile pictures of ourselves, photos from like when we were seven years old. That's what he worked… — 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