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

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 don't eat cereal actually... Frosted Flakes... that's as close as I can get.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.