Kate DiCamillo Quotes - Page 3

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

  Kate DiCamillo

  Character, Mercy

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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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Writing, Light

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• SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green outrageous hopeful light of spring. People came and went, grandmothers and doll collectors and little girls with their mothers. Edward Tulane waited. The seasons turned into years. Edward Tulane waited. He repeated the old doll’s words over and over until they wore a smooth groove of hope in his brain: Someone will come; someone will come for you.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Summer, Girl, Mother

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.446, Candlewick Press

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• Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Attention, Pay Attention

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• We were 15 minutes into it and nothing was happening; I thought, well, that's not going to work. Then all of a sudden everything clicked. I don't know how long it took us, but I would just show up at Alison's [McGhee] office. She would type and we'd just kick it back and forth. Writing is so scary for me, such a lonely endeavor, and it became a wonderful thing to show up and have somebody else go through it with me. It was actually a wonderful experience.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Lonely, Writing, Long

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

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• Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

  Kate DiCamillo

  Real, Dragons, Fairy Tale

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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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Kids, Thinking

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

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• As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Heart, Kids

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

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• Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Voice, Knows

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

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• 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.

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• I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Kids, Pleasure, Existence

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Stories, Way, Difficult

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Ideas, Listening, Attention

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• So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and I don't know how in the world he's going to do it. I have no idea. That was the first time it occurred to me that writing the story was roughly equivalent to Despereaux's descent into the dungeon. I was tremendously aware of that as I was writing. I thought, "I have to be brave or else I'm not going to be able to tell it." But it's the only way that I can write. If I know what's going to happen, I'm not interested in telling the story.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Princess, Writing, Here I Am

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Powerful, Thinking, And Love

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.207, Candlewick Press

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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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Smart, Hollies, Dinner

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.teachingbooks.net. September 9, 2010.

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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

  Book, Reading, Kids

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

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• What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Fun, Book, Kids

  Interview with Eliza Borné, bookpage.com. September 2010.

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• In the beginning of the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Edward is more enamored of himself than he is of anybody else. He's a very fine rabbit; he's been constructed incredibly well, and he has a wardrobe of amazing clothing. He's arrogant, and he doesn't care whether Abilene loves him or not. As the journey progresses, as he gets passed from hand to hand, he learns what it means to love. He gets more and more bedraggled, and his clothing is lost; yet he becomes finer in soul and heart than he was at the beginning of the journey.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Heart, Mean

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

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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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  New York, Hollies, Agents

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

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• I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Believe, Heart, World

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.136, Candlewick Press

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• Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Princess, Feet, Speak

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”, p.30, Candlewick Press

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• I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Names, Waiting, Attention

  Source: blog.booksamillion.com

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• There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart...And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and no where to put it.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Bad Things

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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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Dog, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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