Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

Stories are the shortcut to the heart.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance, if I meet you or if you escape, in the future or in heaven or in prison or underground, some other place. What they have in common is that they're not here. By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen.

As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.

People just love stories.

We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.

I just want to be a light of hope for anyone who might be in the dark.

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

Let thy light shine, then, in dark places.

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

No, I call. Come back. I'm here, he says. But I can't see. It's too bright. You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.

People just want good stories.

Don’t make a sound I’ll be your voice You don’t need to be afraid Anymore I’ll shine a light out in the dark Guide you here no matter how far

Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.

May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.