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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
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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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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In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter. I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, Maybe they do...maybe stories matter.
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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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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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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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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The words, I have a dog named Winn-Dixie, popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern accent. I'd been writing long enough at that point to know not to ignore that kind of red flag. The next day, I put aside what I'd been working on, started with that one sentence, and followed it all the way to the end.
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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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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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Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.
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Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
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Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he wouldn't go away after I'd finished the short story. I couldn't figure out what he wanted, so I wrote to find out.
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