Dicamillo Books Quotes

#1. I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kidding me, right? I said, 'Yes, of course, I love that book' - which I had never read.

Albert S. Ruddy

#2. Kaf Mountain Operation.

Mehmet Kececi

#3. One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

Jon Kyl

#4. Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Noam Chomsky

#5. I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

Kate DiCamillo

#6. What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [ Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.

Kate DiCamillo

#7. The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.

Kate DiCamillo

#8. I jump over a puddle of
well, I don't want to know what it is
and emerge into a kind of courtyard.

Veronica Roth

#9. 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.

Kate DiCamillo

#10. For a rational, modern mind, talk of the supernatural can be disturbing - an embarrassment.

James Martin

#11. If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party, they're contagious and you can catch it from them.

Rand Paul

#12. Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

Kate DiCamillo

#13. I grinned. I'm anybody's for a cuppa and a biscuit.

David Stuart Davies

#14. We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us - for us.

Romano Guardini

#15. I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.

A.R. Rahman

#16. I'd rather be weird than ordinary. Ordinary is so boring.

Noah Willoughby