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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.

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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The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.
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The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.
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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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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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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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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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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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A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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The origin of each story is unique.
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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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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
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In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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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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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
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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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