Kate DiCamillo Quotes (31 Quotes)

We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

Dear God, thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us. We pray in Christ's name, Amen.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

I hate to cook and love to eat.

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 think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

Ideally, I'd like to work part time at the bookstore. That would give me more time to contend with all the office work of writing.

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

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

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

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.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

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

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

The story is about what happens when you share your heart with somebody else it is also about the danger of keeping things locked up.

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.