Kate DiCamillo Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Character, Mercy

• Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he wouldn't go away after I'd finished the short story. I couldn't figure out what he wanted, so I wrote to find out.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Character, Going Away, Adults

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

• Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Character, Long, Mercy

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

• I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison McGhee], but they certainly draw on our physical traits and personality traits and then exaggerate them to the nth degree.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Character, Personality, Degrees

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I always wanted to be a character, when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters and I wasn't tall enough for others. I wanted to be a chipmunk; I think 4'10" was the cutoff.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Character, Thinking, Enough

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview by Claire Kirch, www.publishersweekly.com. September 9, 2010.

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