I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn’t writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
It’s such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don’t want to remember how everything is so beautiful and terrifying when we’re young. The older you get, the more you hope to muffle things. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It’s a good mix. It provides balance. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
Everybody reading the same book at the same time pulls people together. It does start a conversation. If you’re going to read ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane,’ you’re going to talk about heartbreak and loss and all of those things that people don’t talk about as a community. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
There’s still, even now, a part of me that can’t believe that I got published. That part of me has never gone away. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It’s very rare that one of those things will provoke a story, but I think that that kind of paying attention all the time, and keeping everything open, lets the stories come in. But where they come from is still a mystery to me. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
I think our job is to trust our readers. I think our job is to see and to let ourselves be seen. I think our job is to love the world. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children’s books. Kate DiCamillo Read Quote
