Kate DiCamillo Quotes

I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?

Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom?

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

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

In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.

Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.

They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere

You are the ever-expanding universe to me

I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

I have been loved said Edward to the stars

How will the world change if we do not question it?

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.

The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.

The origin of each story is unique.

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.

If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

I've been recognized in airports lots of places, but mostly getting recognized is at home.

Minnesota has been so good to me and so pleased that I love Minnesota.

I don't think about being a celebrity.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

The only control you have over a movie is whether or not you decide to sell the rights.

To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.

Everything when I was a kid was illustrated.

I read whatever the publisher sends me.

I have not Googled myself. I have not looked at myself on Amazon. It could drive you wild.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

Nobody ever learns anything.

Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

I never want to be a role model.

I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."

I actually do like traveling.

If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

I need to write, and I can't write when I'm on the road.

You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.