Kate DiCamillo Quotes

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It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

Kate DiCamillo

Mercy Watson is a pig. She lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson, who are not pigs. I had that basic premise, but I couldn't make it work. I would come back to it, try it, see that I was failing, and put it aside.

Kate DiCamillo

Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.

Kate DiCamillo

Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and wrote the stories "out loud" together. We yelled at each other and made each other laugh. It was a lot of fun.

Kate DiCamillo

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

Kate DiCamillo

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.

Kate DiCamillo

What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.

Kate DiCamillo

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.

Kate DiCamillo

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began with a friend giving me a rabbit doll - forgive me, Edward, for using that word; he doesn't like "doll" - for Christmas. I said, "Oh, he's lovely, what's his name?" And she said, "Edward." And a few days after I received the rabbit, who was dressed very handsomely in Edwardian kind of clothes, I saw him stripped of his finery and face down on the bottom of the ocean floor. Why? I don't know. But that's where his story began in my head.

Kate DiCamillo

As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.

Kate DiCamillo

The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.

Kate DiCamillo

It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don't necessarily feel that responsibility for adults, but I emphatically feel it for children. That's the only difference. There's no syntax difference. There's no semantics difference. There's no thematic difference.

Kate DiCamillo

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

Kate DiCamillo

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

Kate DiCamillo

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.

Kate DiCamillo

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

Kate DiCamillo

[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good: their three-cheese ravioli. But I can't remember what I said to Alison that night that made her laugh so hard. But she got me right away and I got her right away.

Kate DiCamillo

As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens.

Kate DiCamillo

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.

Kate DiCamillo

I show up and try, but I may have to ask myself if I need to wait and let myself regenerate and take a break. I know that this thing that makes the stories has to be treated gently. So sometimes I'll just stop and let the well fill up. With my work, sometimes I hate doing it, but I love having done it. The key is to keep doing it.

Kate DiCamillo

So, yes, at least from my end. You could say there's a lot of Alison [McGhee] in Gollie too.

Kate DiCamillo

I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.

Kate DiCamillo

Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?

Kate DiCamillo

During the night, while Bull and Lucy slept, Edward, with ever-open eyes, stared up at the constellations. He said their names, and then he said the names of the people who loved him. He started with Abilene, and then went on to Nellie and Lawrence and from there to Bull and Lucy, and then he ended again with Abilene: Abilene, Nellie, Lawrence, Bull, Lucy, Abilene. See? Edward told Pellegrina. I am not like the princess. I know about love.

Kate DiCamillo

I never want to be a role model.

Kate DiCamillo

I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents will never show up. That would mess up the fun. I do, however, very much like Kate's idea of having Tony [Fucile] draw their portraits.

Kate DiCamillo

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.

Kate DiCamillo

This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, they'll tell the kid who I am. They think they should give that to the kid. So generally that sends the kid over.

Kate DiCamillo

I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.

Kate DiCamillo

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

Kate DiCamillo

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

Kate DiCamillo

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

Kate DiCamillo

Mercy Watson is pure fun for me as a writer, because I think of her as kind of sorbet - a palate cleanser - between larger works. It's always a relief to come back to her.

Kate DiCamillo

I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.

Kate DiCamillo

Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

Kate DiCamillo

Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.

Kate DiCamillo

One, we [with Alison McGhee] laugh a lot - that was great. Two, I enjoy writing, but it's a lonely undertaking. To have someone in the room with me is an absolute delight and makes it seem less impossible. It became a kind of comforting, joyful process.

Kate DiCamillo

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

Kate DiCamillo

Miracles and magic pervade the things that I've written, but yet there are no miracles and there is no magic.

Kate DiCamillo

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

Kate DiCamillo

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.

Kate DiCamillo

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

Kate DiCamillo

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

Kate DiCamillo

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.

Kate DiCamillo

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

Kate DiCamillo

There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work.

Kate DiCamillo

A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write.

Kate DiCamillo

I love adventurous travel. I also love pancakes, and making pancakes for other people. You would definitely find me in the airy treetop as opposed to below ground.

Kate DiCamillo
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