Kate Dicamillo Quotes

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.

~ Kate Dicamillo

Stories are light.

~ Kate Dicamillo

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)

~ 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

But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go.

~ Kate Dicamillo

He was a squirrel. Could he be a superhero, too?

~ Kate Dicamillo

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.

~ Kate Dicamillo

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

~ Kate Dicamillo

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

~ Kate Dicamillo

If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the idea you got from fairy tales.

~ Kate Dicamillo

So many miracles have not yet happened.

~ Kate Dicamillo

No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.

~ Kate Dicamillo

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

~ Kate Dicamillo

And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, everything had seemed so boring, so pointless. But now, the stories Nellie told struck him as the most important thing in the world and he listened as if his life depended on what she said. (page 69)

~ Kate Dicamillo

He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world.

~ Kate Dicamillo