Top 21 Quotes by Kate DiCamillo

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

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

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

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.

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 hate to cook and love to eat.

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.

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.

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

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.