Kate DiCamillo Quotes

I remember, being young is a scary, wonderful feeling.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.