Two Quotes by Kate DiCamillo

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

“If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.”

— Kate DiCamillo

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

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

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

[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

— Kate DiCamillo

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

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

You have to learn how to write each book.

— Kate DiCamillo

“If you have no intention of loving or being loved then the whole journey is pointless”

— Kate DiCamillo

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

“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

“Dear God, thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the…

— Kate DiCamillo

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by…

— Kate DiCamillo

I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends. We had…

— Kate DiCamillo