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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Understand
Wanted
Writing
Absolutely
Writer
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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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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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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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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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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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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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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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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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
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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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When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I can't say I'm happy when I read that editorial letter. It is always a little painful and scary. But I have learned that - bit by bit - I can make the changes and do the work.
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