Kate DiCamillo Quotes

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

… most censorship took place in the heads of writers, and what the writers failed to cut usually got filtered out by editors in publishing houses.

I can't take just one book with me anywhere.

I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre.

If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.

Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.

Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.