Kate DiCamillo Quotes

• It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

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• There is nothing worse than war in the summer time.

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• The world is dark, and light is precious.
  Come closer, dear reader.
  You must trust me.
  I am telling you a story.

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• You can’t always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

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• There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

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• If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

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• Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

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• Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

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• My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I’m always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

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• 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.

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• It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

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

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• I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

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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 thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

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• I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

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• I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

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• I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

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• I hate to cook and love to eat.

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• I didn’t start working on children’s books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children’s floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

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Kate DiCamillo (27)

Birth:	25th March, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Writer

About

Kate DiCamillo is an American writer of children's fiction for all reading levels, usually featuring animals. Her 2003 novel The Tale of Despereaux and 2013 novel Flora and Ulysses each won the annual Newbery Medal recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Because of Winn-Dixie was a runner-up in 2000. DiCamillo is also known for the Mercy Watson series of picture books, illustrated by Chris Van Dusen.

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