Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations. — 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
I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that… — 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
“The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It's very rare that one of those… — 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
Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's… — 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've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I… — 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
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Mercy Watson is pure fun for me as a writer, because I think of her as kind of sorbet - a palate… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be… — 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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