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How do I feel when I look back at prior work? Hmmm. I think, 'I tried to do the best I could do. It's not perfect. It will never be perfect.' And then I think, 'I want to try again.'
- Kate DiCamillo
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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.
- Kate DiCamillo
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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
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To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations.
- Kate DiCamillo
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There's this amplification that happens anytime you tell a story. You let it go out into the world. It's the most beautiful thing. All I can do is look at it in wonder and amazement.
- Kate DiCamillo
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I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It's very rare that one of those things will provoke a story, but I think that that kind of paying attention all the time, and keeping everything open, lets the stories come in. But where they come from is still a mystery to me.
- Kate DiCamillo
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Whether it is fear of having fish pie or staying in someone's house or not being able to tell the time, all of those things I can remember very clearly. We so often forget how big all these things are for very small children because they are so often trying these things for the first time.
- Kate DiCamillo
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'Island of the Blue Dolphins' by Scott O'Dell had a huge impact on me.
- Kate DiCamillo
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I was a kid who loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on. I didn't have one favorite book. I had lots of favorite books: 'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton, 'Paddington' by Michael Bond, 'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 'Stuart Little' by EB White, 'A Cricket in Times Square,' all the Beverly Cleary books.
- Kate DiCamillo
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Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier each time because you know what you're doing. With writing a novel, you have to figure it out each time. Each time you start over, you just have the language and the idea and the hope.
- Kate DiCamillo
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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
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When I was starting to write, I was fascinated with 'Knuffle Bunny' by Mo Willems. I remember taking it home and typing it out, trying to figure out how it worked. It's just a classic, with dauntingly few words.
- Kate DiCamillo
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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
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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
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If you sit down and read with your kid, either having your child read to you or you reading to your child at a regular time each day, it deepens the relationship. You don't have to talk about stuff; the story will do that work for you.
- Kate DiCamillo
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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
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If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible.
- Kate DiCamillo
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
- Kate DiCamillo
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I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.
- Kate DiCamillo
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
- Kate DiCamillo
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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
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