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Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo
American Author
Born: Mar 25, 1964
Me People Reading Think Writing You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart. Kate DiCamillo
Day You Open Your Eyes Heart Eyes Waiting Every Day World Pay Pay Attention Every Everywhere Bit Hiding Write Writer Open Attention Around Just Want Stories Little Little Bit Your
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one? Kate DiCamillo
Saying Me You Book Will Down Kid Thrill Write Another Get Hands Loved Biggest Biggest Thrill Your Letter
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. Kate DiCamillo
Gift Reading Duty Offered Children Should Chore Presented
So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot of things. Kate DiCamillo
You Writing Dark Down Out Like Arms Hallway Lot Bump Walking Front Much Your Things
I have a part-time dog. I'm actually an aunt to a dog, and he's an awful dog, but I love him. He's only interested in doing what he wants to do. Kate DiCamillo
Love Dog Only He Part-Time Him Doing Aunt Wants Interested Actually Awful
I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be talented. I just had to be persistent. Kate DiCamillo
Time Long Long Time Had Long Time Ago Talented Persistent Just Decided
In a first draft, I concentrate on moving forward and trying not to panic. Kate DiCamillo
Moving Forward First Panic Concentrate Trying Moving Forward Draft
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life. Kate DiCamillo
Life Time My Life Sense Everything Way Drawing Possibility One-Way Mystery Write Another Am Wonder Forever Childhood
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them. Kate DiCamillo
Life People Wonderful My Life Blessed Tell Would Would-Be Feel Supposed Am Doing Than Listen Stories Them Busier Found Now Ever Imagined
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children. Kate DiCamillo
Three Single Am Aunt Lots Friends Childless Children Lovely
I hate to cook and love to eat. Kate DiCamillo
Love Hate Eat Cook
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. Kate DiCamillo
Training Reading Bachelor Had Lot Arts Formal Which Means English
I like to think of myself as a storyteller. Kate DiCamillo
Myself Think Like Storyteller
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. Kate DiCamillo
Live Minneapolis Born Both Write Adult Currently Children Philadelphia
I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head. Kate DiCamillo
Character Mercy Whatever Head
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. Kate DiCamillo
Family Me World Father Made Too Telling Shaped Had He Tales Looked Fairy Fairy Tales How Leaving Up Same Token Who Profoundly
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer. Kate DiCamillo
Writing No Interest Absolutely Writer Had Understand Wanted Interest
I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that I'm having a good time. I can't really write anywhere else. Kate DiCamillo
Christmas Time Good Me Try Good Time Else Having Having A Good Time Strung Write Over Lights Over It House Where Anywhere Anywhere Else Really Convince Desk
I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything. Kate DiCamillo
Desperate Those Kids Would Learn Read Reader Always Been Anything
You have to learn how to write each book. Kate DiCamillo
You Book Write Learn How Each
I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book. Kate DiCamillo
Book People Reading Think One Book About Leads Make Another Judgments Going Just Want Them
I think our job is to trust our readers. I think our job is to see and to let ourselves be seen. I think our job is to love the world. Kate DiCamillo
Love Trust World Job Seen Think Our Ourselves See Readers To Love
I don't know what my mother was thinking, but she entered me in a Little Miss contest - Little Miss Orange Blossom, I think it was. And I don't remember anything about that, except I have one flash-bulb memory of standing on the stage and thinking, 'This is not where I should be.' Kate DiCamillo
Me Memory Remember Mother Stage Think Thinking Entered About Except Miss Know She Contest Blossom Orange Where Anything Little Should Standing
I think hope and magic are probably connected. Kate DiCamillo
Hope Think Magic Connected
When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me... I just didn't think it was something that people did. Kate DiCamillo
Me People Think Books Kid Kind Something Never Wrote Occurred Did Human Just Human Beings Beings Cognitive
We have this thing as human beings: we have a profound need for story. That's what kids need. Kate DiCamillo
Kids Human Human Beings Story Beings Thing Profound Need
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