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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.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Philadelphia
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Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, What are you working on now? And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said It doesn't matter at all now.
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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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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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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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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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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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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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.
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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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The origin of each story is unique.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.
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I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.
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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
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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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The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.
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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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The words, I have a dog named Winn-Dixie, popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern accent. I'd been writing long enough at that point to know not to ignore that kind of red flag. The next day, I put aside what I'd been working on, started with that one sentence, and followed it all the way to the end.
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