When I was starting to write, I was fascinated with ‘Knuffle Bunny’ by Mo Willems. I remember taking it home and typing it out, trying to figure out how it worked. It’s just a classic, with dauntingly few words. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
I decided a long time ago that I didn’t have to be talented. I just had to be persistent. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
I actually participated in a Little Miss Orange Blossom Contest when was I was seven or eight years old. I remember standing up on the stage and thinking, ‘Oh boy, I should not be here.’ Obviously, I didn’t win. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
I was a shy, terrified kid. But I was also a kid who was lucky enough to have friends. I laughed with those friends. I had adventures. We dreamed together. I relied on them. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
Whenever I am with a group of kids, I always ask them, ‘How many of you know about the summer reading program at your library and how many of you know it’s free?’ Spreading that sort of message comes very naturally to me. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
It’s a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something away from the book. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
Whether it is fear of having fish pie or staying in someone’s house or not being able to tell the time, all of those things I can remember very clearly. We so often forget how big all these things are for very small children because they are so often trying these things for the first time. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
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 is bring everybody together in the same room. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
