Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
Kate DiCamillo
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Way
Wrong
Story
Idea
Imagining
Tell
Everywhere
Stories
Pay
Ideas
Listening
Find
Looking
Right
Attention
More quotes by Kate DiCamillo
I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
Kate DiCamillo
I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
Kate DiCamillo
You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
Kate DiCamillo
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
Kate DiCamillo
... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.
Kate DiCamillo
All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
Kate DiCamillo
When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I can't say I'm happy when I read that editorial letter. It is always a little painful and scary. But I have learned that - bit by bit - I can make the changes and do the work.
Kate DiCamillo
When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.
Kate DiCamillo
[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
Kate DiCamillo
Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
Kate DiCamillo
May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
Kate DiCamillo
He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
Kate DiCamillo
The origin of each story is unique.
Kate DiCamillo
I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
Kate DiCamillo
To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.
Kate DiCamillo
Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
Kate DiCamillo
This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
Kate DiCamillo
Perhaps, said the man, you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
Kate DiCamillo
Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.
Kate DiCamillo
There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
Kate DiCamillo
