The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the enchanting power of storytelling and imagination.
In the quote from Kate DiCamillo, the arrangement of shapes into words symbolizes how stories take form and transport us into different worlds. The phrase 'Once upon a time' evokes a sense of nostalgia and magic, signifying the beginning of countless tales that inspire wonder and creativity in both writers and readers alike.
In practice
This quote can be used to open a storytelling session at a library.
If you sit down and read with your kid, either having your child read to you or you reading to your child at a regular time each day, it deepens the relationship. You don't have to talk about stuff; the story will do that work for you.
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 together changes everybody involved.
If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.
I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.
There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character β not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British Empire, that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved ... The great novelists have brought us to see whatever they wish us to see through some character. Otherwise they would not be novelists, but poet, historians, or pamphleteers.
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