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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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[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
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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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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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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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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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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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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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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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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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The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.
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We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.
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I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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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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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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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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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
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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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