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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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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Attention
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Imagining
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Everywhere
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Pay
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
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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 ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.
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