I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay..

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 book….

If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former Figlio's restaurant in Minneapolis….

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything….

We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other ….

I show up and try, but I may have to ask myself if I need to wait and let myself regenerate and take a break. I know that this thing that makes the s….

[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, "What are you working on now?" And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princ….

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading t….

I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart..

Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time..

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll).

How will the world change if we do not question it?.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart..

The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him..

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing..

Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!.

It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don….

I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read; I'll get it in his han….

Minnesota has been so good to me and so pleased that I love Minnesota..

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?.

Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods. Words t….