Kate DiCamillo Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Editors, Scary

  Source: blog.booksamillion.com

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• I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Delicate Things, Two

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, "I think that you might like this one [book]." So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Grateful, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Light, Darkness, Despair

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his mother, when he and his father move to a new town. And two things happen the same day that Rob gets sent home. One is he meets a girl named Sistine Bailey, who is what my mother would call "a piece of work," and he finds a real tiger in a cage in the woods behind the motel where he lives with his dad. And that's the story: what happens with the Sistine tiger, the real tiger and Rob's grief.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Mother, Children

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. In-depth Written Interview.

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• I never want to be a role model.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Role Models, Roles, Want

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Nobody ever learns anything.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Realizing

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Stars, Differences, Doe

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• Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Dark, Light

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.197, Candlewick Press

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• I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Aunt, Lovely

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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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Jobs, Children, Book

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• I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Thinking, Lucky, Persons

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• If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Powerful, Elephants, Magic

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.586, Candlewick Press

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• Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)

  Kate DiCamillo

  Missing Someone, Heart, Loss

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”, p.92, Candlewick Press

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• The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Once Upon A Time, Phrases, Shapes

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.22, Candlewick Press

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• Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Believe, Squirrels, World

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

  Kate DiCamillo

  Patterns, I Can

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• I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Rewriting, Screenplays

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• 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

  Blessed, People, Would Be

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• Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Believe, Heart, Eye

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

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• You are the ever-expanding universe to me

  Kate DiCamillo

  Expanding Universe, Expanding, Universe

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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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Coffee, Writing, Thinking

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• I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Thinking, Storyteller

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• When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Kings, Law, May

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.119, Candlewick Press

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