Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Kate DiCamillo (23)

Birth:	25th March, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Writer

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• 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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Topics in Love

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

  Kate DiCamillo

  Topics in Truth

• Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

  Kate DiCamillo

• Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

  Kate DiCamillo

• 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.

  Kate DiCamillo

• My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

  Kate DiCamillo

• 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.

  Kate DiCamillo

• I’m at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

  Kate DiCamillo

• I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

  Kate DiCamillo

• I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

  Kate DiCamillo

• I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

  Kate DiCamillo

• I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

  Kate DiCamillo

• I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

  Kate DiCamillo

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

  Kate DiCamillo

• I hate to cook and love to eat.

  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.

  Kate DiCamillo

• I didn’t know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

  Kate DiCamillo

• I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

  Kate DiCamillo

• I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It’s wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

  Kate DiCamillo

• 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.

  Kate DiCamillo