Kate DiCamillo Quotes

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

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.

My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the promise. My favorite four letter word is once because it says it happened then. My favorite three letter word is yes because I’m just now learning to say it to my heart. My favorite two letter word is if because it makes all things possible like this: If not always If not never Then once. Yes.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

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.

Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as helpful to have people who don't believe in you, people who mock you, people who doubt you, people who enrage you. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of this type of person in the world ... write for yourself. Write for the story. And write, also, for all of the people who doubt you. Write for all those people who are not brave enough to do this grand and wondrous thing themselves. Let them motivate you.

... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

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

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

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.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

So many miracles have not yet happened.

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

Reading is my passion.

There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.

I loved school; I loved the rules, and I liked there being right answers, wrong answers, and being able to give the right answer all the time. And that goes against who many would predict is going to go out and break rules and tell stories for a living.

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.