Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo
Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo is an American writer of children's fiction for all reading levels, usually featuring animals. She is one of six people to win two Newbery Medals, recognizing her novels The Tale of Despereauxand Flora and Ulysses. Her best-known books for young children are Mercy Watson series illustrated by Chris Van Dusen...
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth25 March 1964
CityPhiladelphia, PA
heart broken how-to-love
I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
children aunt lovely
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
expanding-universe expanding universe
You are the ever-expanding universe to me
believe heart eye
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.
powerful like-love ridiculous
And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
book phones people
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.
heart mouths soup
There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
coffee writing thinking
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.
writing play scary
I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.
writing rewriting screenplays
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
magic impossible ends
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.
world dare ifs
We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
night laughing remember
[our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good: their three-cheese ravioli. But I can't remember what I said to Alison that night that made her laugh so hard. But she got me right away and I got her right away.
reading knights together
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.