Kate DiCamillo Quotes

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

Kate DiCamillo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 25, 1964

Topics

WorkDayWeekGoalDoneWant

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Jenny Eclair

GoodNeverModerationSomethingBeen

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon

ImaginationRealityLeavesLot

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

Matt Smith

KidEatUsedBehindSignificance

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.

Jeffrey Eugenides

BookStorytellingFairDifferent

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

Michael Haneke

ArtHatePeopleWorldCinemaEscape

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.

Roger Zelazny

DayPoetryExerciseEvery DayLook

Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.

Julia Barr

HusbandThoughtHappenWorkingWould

I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.

Jonathan Carroll

MyselfFantasyNeverSeenWriter

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

China Machado

TimeMeDoneNeverThingsHappened

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

Clint Eastwood

WarWorldGenerationNowWholeWho

The fans never gave up on CM Punk. If CM Punk wants to be part of 'All In,' he can be part of 'All In.' But I am not putting it on him to draw those 10,000 seats. If we did have CM Punk, we would not tell you we had CM Punk - unless we didn't sell any tickets.

Cody Rhodes

I AmYouNeverHimPunkTell

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

Chuck Yeager

AirplaneBelieveLearnWingsYouGo

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