There are 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. Kate DiCamillo More Quotes by Kate DiCamillo More Quotes From Kate DiCamillo How will the world change if we do not question it? Kate DiCamillo ifs world Longing is not always a reciprocal thing. Kate DiCamillo reciprocal longing [A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, "What are you working on now?" And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said "It doesn't matter at all now." Kate DiCamillo princess writing fall 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. Kate DiCamillo coffee writing thinking And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing. Kate DiCamillo like-love ridiculous powerful You are the ever-expanding universe to me Kate DiCamillo expanding-universe expanding universe In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, "Maybe they do...maybe stories matter." Kate DiCamillo airports guy matter I like to think of myself as a storyteller. Kate DiCamillo storyteller thinking 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. Kate DiCamillo childhood drawing writing 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 eye heart believe So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and I don't know how in the world he's going to do it. I have no idea. That was the first time it occurred to me that writing the story was roughly equivalent to Despereaux's descent into the dungeon. I was tremendously aware of that as I was writing. I thought, "I have to be brave or else I'm not going to be able to tell it." But it's the only way that I can write. If I know what's going to happen, I'm not interested in telling the story. Kate DiCamillo princess here-i-am writing I hate to cook and love to eat. Kate DiCamillo i-hate and-love hate I think of myself as an enormously lucky person. Kate DiCamillo lucky persons thinking 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 pieces play writing As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens. Kate DiCamillo happens writing I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them. Kate DiCamillo blessed would-be people I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay. Kate DiCamillo rewriting screenplays writing I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book. Kate DiCamillo phones book people Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer. Kate DiCamillo interest wanted writing 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. Kate DiCamillo leaving father world
