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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
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There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, I think that you might like this one [book]. So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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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 grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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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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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears.
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The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.
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Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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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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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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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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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun. The phone starts to ring, and the rest of the day is spent dealing with the business of writing. My workday is done at about 3:00.
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