Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light. Kate DiCamillo More Quotes by Kate DiCamillo More Quotes From Kate DiCamillo I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern. Kate DiCamillo patternsi-can Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible. Kate DiCamillo squirrelsbelieveworld A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is. Kate DiCamillo dixierisingpeople There is nothing worse than war in the summetime. Kate DiCamillo war If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done. Kate DiCamillo magicelephantspowerful This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness. Kate DiCamillo playwonderfulpromise I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's gotten sandwiched in between two overachieving, tap-dance-performing kids - Winn-Dixie and Despereaux. Kate DiCamillo darkkidschildren Writing is seeing. It is paying attention. Kate DiCamillo pay-attentionwritingattention I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children. Kate DiCamillo auntlovelychildren 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 jobsbookchildren The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books. Kate DiCamillo journeybookway 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 lightwritingbook The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him. Kate DiCamillo lightsoulkings There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong. Kate DiCamillo faterevengeheart It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don't necessarily feel that responsibility for adults, but I emphatically feel it for children. That's the only difference. There's no syntax difference. There's no semantics difference. There's no thematic difference. Kate DiCamillo responsibilitykidschildren Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic. Kate DiCamillo magicendsimpossible I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea. Kate DiCamillo princessknightsshining In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community. Kate DiCamillo lightdarkdoors There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt. Kate DiCamillo difficultstoriesway It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it. Kate DiCamillo bad-things
