Kate DiCamillo Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Kids, Writing

• 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

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Simple, Awards

• Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Writing, Light

• What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Book, Laughing

  Source: bookpage.com

• Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Voice, Knows

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

• The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Editors, Editing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read; I'll get it in his hands." I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Teacher, Book, Grateful

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: bookpage.com

• The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to be in. Stories emerge from keeping your heart open to the people that cross in front of you or the dogs or the mice, and their ability to open you up and enrich your life.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Dog, Book, Heart

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Heart, Kids

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

• There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, "I think that you might like this one [book]." So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Grateful, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Writing, Stories

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.teachingbooks.net. September 9, 2010.

• 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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Home, Florida

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Wells

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Talking, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

• 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

  Jobs, Children, Book

• It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Thinking, Virtue

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Loneliness, Book, Heart

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the book onto film as humanly possible. I think he did a fabulous job. And also I'm thrilled because the movie brings people to the book - people that wouldn't know about the book - and that's a great thing.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

• That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the world. It's not a duty; it's a privilege and it's a joy. That joy is doubled and tripled and quadrupled if you read with other people.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, America, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

• I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Phones, People

• Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Love Is, Light

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

• On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did for a living. I said, "I write," and it seemed totally ridiculous in the face of what had just happened. I mean, I couldn't think of anything more pointless than telling stories. He asked, "What do you write?" I said, "I write children books."

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Children, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Stories, Demand

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.hbook.com

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