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I find that when I write for ...

I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different sentence structure. I just hope more.

Kate DiCamillo 132 quotes

It wasn't until my fifth or s...

It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which is bring everybody together in the same room.

Kate DiCamillo 132 quotes

I was someone who wanted to b...

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

Kate DiCamillo 132 quotes

How do you make your kids rea...

How do you make your kids read more? It needs to be presented as a joy and a privilege to get to do it, and the kids should get to see you as a parent reading for your own pleasure. It's not something you send your kids off to do, 'Go into your room and read for 15 minutes or else.' It becomes a task then.

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It's such a potent thing, to ...

It's such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don't want to remember how everything is so beautiful and terrifying when we're young. The older you get, the more you hope to muffle things.

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I actually participated in a ...

I actually participated in a Little Miss Orange Blossom Contest when was I was seven or eight years old. I remember standing up on the stage and thinking, 'Oh boy, I should not be here.' Obviously, I didn't win.

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I always have a notebook with...

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 132 quotes

I like to think of myself as ...

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

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When you write for kids, peop...

When you write for kids, people always ask you what lesson you mean to impart. I don't think adult writers get that question. I never mean to teach anybody a lesson, because I don't know anything myself.

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I didn't really start to writ...

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

Kate DiCamillo 132 quotes

I have no talents. But I do h...

I have no talents. But I do have hope. And wonder. And love. Maybe those are talents?

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I want to remind people of th...

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.

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I didn't know anything about ...

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

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I don't know what my mother w...

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 132 quotes

Reading should not be present...

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

Kate DiCamillo 132 quotes

It's a very powerful, emotion...

It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something away from the book.

Kate DiCamillo 132 quotes

If you sit down and read with...

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.

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I think that sometimes we ope...

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

Kate DiCamillo 132 quotes

I was a shy, terrified kid. B...

I was a shy, terrified kid. But I was also a kid who was lucky enough to have friends. I laughed with those friends. I had adventures. We dreamed together. I relied on them.

Kate DiCamillo 132 quotes

As Elmore Leonard says, I wri...

As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens.

Kate DiCamillo 132 quotes

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