American - Author | March 25, 1964 -
If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible.
Kate DiCamillo
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In a first draft, I concentrate on moving forward and trying not to panic.
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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.
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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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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have found what I am supposed to do and to get to do it.
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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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I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.
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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 get my inspiration from looking at the world and paying attention to people and just looking closely. Also from reading. I get so much inspiration from other authors.
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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.
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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.
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