Kate DiCamillo Quotes - Page 9

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• I show up and try, but I may have to ask myself if I need to wait and let myself regenerate and take a break. I know that this thing that makes the stories has to be treated gently. So sometimes I'll just stop and let the well fill up. With my work, sometimes I hate doing it, but I love having done it. The key is to keep doing it.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Hate, Keys, Waiting

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

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• We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Art, Bad Day, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything out but rather adding, because I'm always stripping down. I tend to under-write rather than over-write.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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

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• When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Writing, Looks

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

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• If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Thinking, Might Use, Ifs

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There's a notion of art in this country that you have to be nutty or special or "called" in order to be an artist. I believe the questions everyone should ask themselves are, "Do you want to do it? Are you willing to do it poorly? Are you willing to do the work of doing it? Are you willing to persist when everybody tells you it's silly?" If you're willing to do that, then you can do it.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Country, Art, Believe

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that I hear that I think I can turn into a story. I write about the story that I'm working on and where I think it might go.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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

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• May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Writing, Goal

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, School, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Teacher, Kids, Going Out

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I need to write, and I can't write when I'm on the road.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Needs, I Can

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Needs, Introvert, Reason

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Home, Writing, Strange

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I actually do like traveling.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the world. It's not a duty; it's a privilege and it's a joy. That joy is doubled and tripled and quadrupled if you read with other people.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, America, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Talking, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read; I'll get it in his hands." I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Teacher, Book, Grateful

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former Figlio's restaurant in Minneapolis. We were laughing within a minute of meeting - always a good sign.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Memories, Fall, Laughing

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Answers, World

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

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• How will the world change if we do not question it?

  Kate DiCamillo

  World, Ifs

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.597, Candlewick Press

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• The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Falling In Love, Princess, Hero

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

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• I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Play, Scary

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

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• When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Terror, Uncertainty

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

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• All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Names, Doubt, Lasts

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.544, Candlewick Press

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• But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Father, Heart, Two

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