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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
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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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I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. Here, you have to read this, you have to read this.
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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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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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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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