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….

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

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons..

Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love wit….

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

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….

I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the ro….

In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's ….

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about..

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform..

While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short..

The Watsons have lost sight of the fact that Mercy Watson is a pig, and they love her truly, madly, deeply. They live next door to two elderly sister….

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

Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She….

My favorite food is deep-fried ravioli. I always get that every year..

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole..

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime..

I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him..

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of li….

[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….

There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt..