There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is… — 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
... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under… — 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 grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The… — 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
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
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and… — 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
I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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
A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those… — 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
Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It's often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through… — 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
It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books. — 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
The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The words, "I have a dog named Winn-Dixie," popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern… — 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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