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How will the world change if we do not question it?
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Change
World
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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
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Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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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 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.
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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.
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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
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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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Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
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We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
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