Kate DiCamillo Quotes - Page 2

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

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

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.

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

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.

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

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award

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.

I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.

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

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

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.

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.

I hate to cook and love to eat.

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.