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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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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.
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Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.
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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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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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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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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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