No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do..

There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup..

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing..

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right..

Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time..

I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends. We had no idea how to….

I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea..

Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these thi….

Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the book onto film as huma….

At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into ….

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) som….

I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound like whiners - about how hard….

... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your a….

In the beginning of the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Edward is more enamored of himself than he is of anybody else. He's a very fin….

Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believ….

One, we [with Alison McGhee] laugh a lot - that was great. Two, I enjoy writing, but it's a lonely undertaking. To have someone in the room with me i….

Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that ….

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you becau….

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all..

When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that I hear that I think I can turn in….