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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
Seeing
Attention
Writing
Paying

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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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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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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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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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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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Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.
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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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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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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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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, they'll tell the kid who I am. They think they should give that to the kid. So generally that sends the kid over.
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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 can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write.
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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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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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