Kate DiCamillo Quotes

'Island of the Blue Dolphins' by Scott O'Dell had a huge impact on me.

Kate DiCamillo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 25, 1964

Topics

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The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.'

Jennifer Lee

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After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

John Katzman

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Angela Carter

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There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

Siouxsie Sioux

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I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

Sia

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Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!

Ruben Dario

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We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.

Roy Rogers

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It's great to have an honest course where you can use your strength. I swim 10 hours a week, I bike 20 hours a week, and I want to be able to show that.

Jonathan Brownlee

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Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

Brandon Boyd

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Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

Shakti Gawain

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The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.

Mark Billingham

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Most people don't know how to take compliments. That's the biggest problem in America - we're hesitant to give compliments and embarrassed at getting them.

Letitia Baldrige

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