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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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More quotes by Kate DiCamillo
We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.
Kate DiCamillo
I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
Kate DiCamillo
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.
Kate DiCamillo
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.
Kate DiCamillo
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.
Kate DiCamillo
Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
Kate DiCamillo
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
Kate DiCamillo
I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
Kate DiCamillo
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.
Kate DiCamillo
Nobody ever learns anything.
Kate DiCamillo
I think of Mercy Watson like a superball there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.
Kate DiCamillo
And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
Kate DiCamillo
When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too, then I feel like my time has been well spent.
Kate DiCamillo
I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
Kate DiCamillo
What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
Kate DiCamillo
How will the world change if we do not question it?
Kate DiCamillo
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.
Kate DiCamillo
You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
Kate DiCamillo
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
Kate DiCamillo
In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.
Kate DiCamillo