If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

— Kate DiCamillo

I have been loved said Edward to the stars.

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

— Kate DiCamillo

It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love to die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it.

— Kate DiCamillo

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

— Kate DiCamillo

It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a terrible thing.

— Kate DiCamillo

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

— Kate DiCamillo

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

— Kate DiCamillo

Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone.

— Kate DiCamillo