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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Paying
Seeing
Attention
Writing

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All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
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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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In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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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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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.
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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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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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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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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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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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