Quotes by Kate DiCamillo

About Kate DiCamillo:

Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo is an American writer of children's fiction for all reading levels, usually featuring animals. Her 2003 novel The Tale of Despereaux and 2013 novel Flora and Ulysses each won the annual Newbery Medal recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Because of Winn-Dixie was a runner-up (Newbery Honor Book) in 2000. DiCamillo is also known for the Mercy Watson series of picture books, illustrated by Chris Van Dusen.
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

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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. P...

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Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food. The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: .

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The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of his heart.

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Alfred T. Slipper was a janitor. Most of the time (often, in fact) they treated him with disdain. They had no idea of the astonishing acts of heroism, the blinding light, contained within his outward humdrum disguise. Only Alfred's parakeet, Dolores,...

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She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!" thought Flora.

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So many miracles have not yet happened.

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I love your round head, the brilliant green, the watching blue, these letters, this world, you. I am very, very hungry.

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He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.

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Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it- sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts, eggs sunny-side up- you are the ever-expanding universe to me.

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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

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It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

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You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

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There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

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Dear God, thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving...

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Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.

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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

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, though Peter. 'Eat,' said Leo Matienne again, very gently. Peter looked the truth of what he had lost full in the face. And then he ate.

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There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?

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Magic is always impossible. It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That's why it is magic.

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Author Bio

  • NameKate DiCamillo
  • DescriptionAmerican children's writer
  • BornMarch 25, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksBecause Of Winn-Dixie
  • AwardsNewbery Medal