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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.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Come
Accessing
Feel
Richer
Describing
Feels
Closest
Something
Voices
Like
Deeper
Voice
Happens

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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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The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.
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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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I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read I'll get it in his hands. I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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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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