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Kate DiCamillo recalls a scrap of paper at an airport that sparked a thought: stories matter. She urges parents to read with their kids, saying that sharing stories builds strong bonds. She also notes that even dark or violent tales hold value because they reveal truth.

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The origin of each story is unique.

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“Stories are light”

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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

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I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.

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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.

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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

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I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of…

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The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make…

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I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play,…

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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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In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is,…

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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…

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I loved school; I loved the rules, and I liked there being right answers, wrong answers, and being able to give the…

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Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and…

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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 am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I…

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I show up and try, but I may have to ask myself if I need to wait and let myself regenerate and…

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It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as…

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The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his…

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On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did…

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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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Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how…

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It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I…

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I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound…

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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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We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to…

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It's a weird kind of disconnect that this whole story [he Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] grew around a real doll of…

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the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a…

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I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as…

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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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Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he…

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The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then…

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There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your…

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The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of…

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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…

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Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working…

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[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, "What are you working on now?" And I said I was writing a story…

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In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter."…

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

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…

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