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Kate Dicamillo Inspirational Quotes (138)

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What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.
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We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, I think that you might like this one [book]. So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.
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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
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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 light for me.
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Perhaps, said the man, you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
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[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
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The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.
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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.
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Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the beginning of a story. I always have a notebook with me so that I can write down what I see and hear.
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.
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