I can Quotes by Kate DiCamillo

13 I can quotes by Kate DiCamillo

Kate DiCamillo’s "I can" moments feel like a warm hand on a child’s shoulder, urging perseverance with quiet strength. These thirteen snippets provide a tender introduction to her hopeful storytelling style.

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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

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I can never tell if anything I do is really good. I'm always just slightly chagrined.

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

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Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I…

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Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the…

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The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that…

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I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can…

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I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents…

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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…

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When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have…

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[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good:…

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So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and…

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I'm in trouble if they can't, because everyone's taller than me, and if that's true, that means I can't have any friends!…

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[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

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Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them…

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You have to learn how to write each book.

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“If you have no intention of loving or being loved then the whole journey is pointless”

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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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“Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannot always…

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“Dear God, thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the…

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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by…

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I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends. We had…

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