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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Stories
Book
Demands
Loud
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Books
Story
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Language

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I love words I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.
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Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.
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The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to be in. Stories emerge from keeping your heart open to the people that cross in front of you or the dogs or the mice, and their ability to open you up and enrich your life.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.
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To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.
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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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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 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.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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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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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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You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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Nobody ever learns anything.
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This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, they'll tell the kid who I am. They think they should give that to the kid. So generally that sends the kid over.
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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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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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