Kate DiCamillo Quotes

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• Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
• I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do…
• I like to think of myself as a storyteller,
• I hate to cook and love to eat.
• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I…
• Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility…
• I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to…
• I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
• I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
• I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some…
• I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
• 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…
• It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is…
• Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
• This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
• If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to…
• There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
• Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the…
• I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
• When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

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