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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.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Thinking
Care
Passionately
Like
Might
Fabulous
People
Book
Adult
Nothing
Adults
Thing
Grateful
Every
Amazing
Time
Saying
Think
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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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... 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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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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While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.
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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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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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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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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.
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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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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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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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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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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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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. Here, you have to read this, you have to read this.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
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Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
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