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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
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No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
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I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.
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Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods. Words that you would like to hear are “Take me instead, I will go to the dungeon in my sons place.” There is a great deal of comfort in those words.
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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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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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Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.
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As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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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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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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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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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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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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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.
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To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too, then I feel like my time has been well spent.
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