Quote by Kate DiCamillo Download Open image ““Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being?”” — Kate DiCamillo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“When no one else is around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The secret seems to be the only way to become mysterious and wonderful modern life. The commonest thing gets a touch fascinating when done… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Anything’s possible, I suppose. It’s a wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“I am an extraordinary being, you think. I am a mysterious creature” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Besides, people never regard anything that serves and benefits them as mysterious; only the things which damage or threaten them are mysterious.” — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
“…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“To discuss endlessly what silly people mean when they say silly things may be amusing but can hardly be important.” — Bertrand Russell 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