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Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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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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[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
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Perhaps, said the man, you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.
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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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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.
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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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The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
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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.
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Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.
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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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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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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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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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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.
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