top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?"
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Saying quotes
"If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there."
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
"It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?"
"I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing."
"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not."
"My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years."
"When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading."
"Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness."
"Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life."
"It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure."
"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."
"I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults."
bottom of page