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Kate DiCamillo
March 25, 1964 -
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

   

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

   

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

   

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

   

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

   

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

   

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

    Topics: Children

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

   

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

   

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

   

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 figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

   

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

   

I hate to cook and love to eat.

   

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 that pervaded that time of my life.

   

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

   

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.

   

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

   

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 is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

   

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 of the books, I was so impressed.

   

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

   

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