Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Home
Tiger
Wanted
Tigers
Book
Florida
Way
Rising
Couldn
Grew
Money
Didn

More quotes by Kate DiCamillo

Image
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
Image
I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
Kate DiCamillo
Image
Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
Kate DiCamillo
Image
It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
Kate DiCamillo
Image
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
Image
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
Image
[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
Kate DiCamillo
Image
Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.
Kate DiCamillo
Image
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
Image
Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
Kate DiCamillo
Image
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
Kate DiCamillo
Image
The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
Kate DiCamillo
Image
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
Kate DiCamillo
Image
The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
Kate DiCamillo
Image
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
Image
We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
Kate DiCamillo
Image
What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
Kate DiCamillo
Image
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
Image
What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.
Kate DiCamillo
Image
In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.
Kate DiCamillo