Kate DiCamillo Quotes About Writing

• Es realmente excelente que alguien crea en ti y en tu capacidad para escribir. Pero creo que es igual de útil tener gente que no cree en ti, gente que se burla de ti, gente que duda de ti, gente que te enfurece. Afortunadamente, nunca faltan este tipo de personas en el mundo... escribe para ti mismo. Escribe para la historia. Y escribe también para todos los que dudan de ti. Escribe para todas esas personas que no son lo bastante valientes para hacer por sí mismas esta cosa grandiosa y maravillosa. Deja que te motiven.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Creer, Escribir, Pensar

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

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Kids, Writing

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

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Writing, Light

• No sabía nada de escribir un guión, pero de alguna manera acabé reescribiendo un guión.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Rewriting, Screenplays

• May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Writing, Goal

  Fuente: bookpage.com

• I think we sent Tony Fucile pictures of ourselves, photos from like when we were seven years old. That's what he worked from. He captured exactly what we looked like. I'd love to do another one with Alison, not just for the joy of writing, but also for the joy of watching Tony bring it to life with his illustrations. I'm hoping at BEA, or ALA, I'll get to meet Tony and shake his hand and thank him.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Thinking, Illustration

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.teachingbooks.net. September 9, 2010.

• So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and I don't know how in the world he's going to do it. I have no idea. That was the first time it occurred to me that writing the story was roughly equivalent to Despereaux's descent into the dungeon. I was tremendously aware of that as I was writing. I thought, "I have to be brave or else I'm not going to be able to tell it." But it's the only way that I can write. If I know what's going to happen, I'm not interested in telling the story.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Princess, Writing, Here I Am

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

• I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything out but rather adding, because I'm always stripping down. I tend to under-write rather than over-write.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Escribir, Significar, Pensar

  Entrevista en TeachingBooks.net, www.teachingbooks.net. 12 de noviembre de 2005.

• Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Attention, Pay Attention

• For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Niños, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: bookpage.com

• Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the beginning of a story. I always have a notebook with me so that I can write down what I see and hear.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Notebook, Writing, Stories

  Source: blog.booksamillion.com

• As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Escribir, Sucede

  Entrevista en TeachingBooks.net, www.teachingbooks.net. 12 de noviembre de 2005.

• De niño me encantaba leer, pero no escribía ni creaba mundos imaginarios. Así que, si un estudiante se va pensando: "Obviamente es una persona corriente, pero consigue ganarse la vida haciendo lo que quiere. A lo mejor eso también se aplica a mí", entonces siento que mi tiempo ha estado bien empleado.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Escribir, Niños, Pensar

  Entrevista en TeachingBooks.net, www.teachingbooks.net. 12 de noviembre de 2005.

• We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Writing, Stories

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.teachingbooks.net. September 9, 2010.

• Las palabras "Tengo un perro que se llama Winn-Dixie" aparecieron en mi cabeza con la voz de una niña con acento sureño. Llevaba escribiendo el tiempo suficiente para saber que no debía ignorar ese tipo de señales de alarma. Al día siguiente, dejé a un lado lo que tenía entre manos, empecé con esa frase y la seguí hasta el final.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Dog, Writing

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

• It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don't necessarily feel that responsibility for adults, but I emphatically feel it for children. That's the only difference. There's no syntax difference. There's no semantics difference. There's no thematic difference.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Niños, Responsabilidad

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

• If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Home, Writing, Strange

  Fuente: www.hbook.com

• Nací en Filadelfia y actualmente vivo en Minneapolis. Escribo tanto para niños como para adultos.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Writing, Philadelphia

• While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Writing, Tall

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.publishersweekly.com. September 9, 2010.

• 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 an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears."

  Kate DiCamillo

  Hero, Writing, Son

  Entrevista en TeachingBooks.net, www.teachingbooks.net. 12 de noviembre de 2005.

• Un día típico para mí es el siguiente: me levanto a las 6:00, la cafetera se pone en marcha automáticamente y el ordenador se enciende. Me sirvo una taza de café, escucho The Writer's Almanac de Garrison Keillor y luego escribo.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Café, Escritura, Típico

  Entrevista en TeachingBooks.net, www.teachingbooks.net. 12 de noviembre de 2005.

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

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Needs, I Can

  Fuente: www.hbook.com

• 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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Two, Goal

• I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound like whiners - about how hard writing is, and how we didn't have a story to work on. Alison said, 'Why don't we work on writing something together,' and I said, 'Eh, I don't know if I could work that way.' She said, 'Well, just show up here and we'll see,' and I said, 'Well, what would it be about?' She said, 'Duh, it'd be about a tall girl and a short girl.' So I agreed to come and try it for a day.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Chica, Escribir, Pensar

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.teachingbooks.net. September 9, 2010.

• I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Winter, Dixie

  Entrevista en TeachingBooks.net, www.teachingbooks.net. 12 de noviembre de 2005.

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