“I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt...” — Kate DiCamillo Quote

“I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.”

“I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me a long time to commit to being a writer. Up until then, I had worked one dead-end job after another while writing on the side.”

“I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.”

“I'm the only one of the family born in Yorkshire. My aunt came down first with her husband and told my mum there was plenty of work in Wakefield. My dad was going to go to Australia, but mum said no, we'll go to Wakefield.”

“It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.”

“I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.”