We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
Kate DiCamilloDid you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
Kate DiCamilloReader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
Kate DiCamilloThe 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.
Kate DiCamillo