Kate DiCamillo

“Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?”

“If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.”

“'Island of the Blue Dolphins' by Scott O'Dell had a huge impact on me.”

“I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It's very rare that one of those things will provoke a story, but I think that that kind of paying attention all the time, and keeping everything open, lets the stories come in. But where they come from is still a mystery t...”

“It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something away from the book.”

“I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.”