Kate DiCamillo Quotes

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

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

There's a beauty in being unrealistic.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

I'm not a dreamer... but I believe in miracles. I have to

I believe in the goodness of imagination.

She had a way of embroidering life with stars.

Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to see wonderful things we never thought we would see.

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.

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.

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

I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

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

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.