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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.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Life
Friendships
People
Books
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No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
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When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I can't say I'm happy when I read that editorial letter. It is always a little painful and scary. But I have learned that - bit by bit - I can make the changes and do the work.
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.
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There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
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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 always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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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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The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
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The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to be in. Stories emerge from keeping your heart open to the people that cross in front of you or the dogs or the mice, and their ability to open you up and enrich your life.
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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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How will the world change if we do not question it?
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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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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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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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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I love words I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.
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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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