Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

Children are my favorite people, because they inspire me with their optimism and spirit.

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Everybody's a dreamer.

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

I've always been a dreamer.

It's much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.

There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.

I think we need to dream.

I'd like to think I'm optimistic and imaginative.

I was a dreamer, and I still am one.

I don't think I necessarily write about dark things.

It's good to dream, and I was born a dreamer.

I believe in dreaming.

I'm crazy about Steven Spielberg. Another inspiration for me, and I don't know where it came from, is children. If I'm down, I'll take a book with children's pictures and look at it and it will just lift me up. Being around children is magic.

There is inspiration all around us.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.