Quotessence
Home / Authors / Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo

Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Writer

Filter quotes by topic

AllWritingStoriesBookThinkingWorldDespereauxIfsSaidWayHeartKnowsPeopleReaderLightKidsChildrenReadingWonderfulI CanTwo

Famous Kate DiCamillo Quotes

“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.”

IfsKnowsFeelsWritingChildrenStoriesKidsAgeDifferencesResponsibilityReaderAdultsSyntaxSemanticsThematic
Author:Kate DiCamillo
Create image

“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.”

IfsWayHeartTogetherMeditationFateBrokenReaderRevengeHealAlasCarelessCrookedSpoonsCraftsmanTogether AgainDespereauxChiaroscuro
Book:The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
Create image

“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.”

IfsWayHeartTogetherBrokenReaderHealCarelessCrookedCraftsmanDespereauxChiaroscuro
Book:The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
Create image