Figure Quote by Kate DiCamillo

“I wrote my first poem about a bunny. ‘Bunny, bunny, hop hop hop. White and soft like a little mop.”

— Wendy Mass

I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life.…

— Gunter Grass

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

— Haruki Murakami

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is…

— Maurice Sendak

“[About John Updike's Rabbit Run] The author fails to convince us that his puppets are interesting in themselves, or that their plight has implications…

— Chicago Tribune

“The Tale of Peter Rabbit Table of Contents”

— Beatrix Potter

“When I was a kid, I just read and read. We were lucky enough to have gone to England and had a whole bunch…

— Franny Billingsley

“I live in gratitude to my parents for initiating me--and as early as I begged for it, without keeping me waiting--into knowledge of the…

— Eudora Welty

I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.'…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really clever and…

— Nick Hornby

I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs…

— David Mitchell