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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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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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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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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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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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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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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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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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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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The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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I always wanted to be a character, when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters and I wasn't tall enough for others. I wanted to be a chipmunk I think 4'10 was the cutoff.
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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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