Kate DiCamillo Quotes - Page 9

• It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Thinking, Virtue

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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 I hear that I think I can turn into a story. I write about the story that I'm working on and where I think it might go.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Escribir, pensar, historias

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• If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Thinking, Might Use, Ifs

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• When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Writing, Looks

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

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• 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.

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• We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Art, Bad Day, Thinking

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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 take a break. I know that this thing that makes the stories has to be treated gently. So sometimes I'll just stop and let the well fill up. With my work, sometimes I hate doing it, but I love having done it. The key is to keep doing it.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Hate, Keys, Waiting

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• I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Play, Scary

  Interview with Eliza Borné, bookpage.com. September 2010.

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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 human beings it's part of who we are.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Pensamiento, Personas, Historias

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• All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Loneliness, Book, Heart

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• 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

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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 see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Winter, Dixie

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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! Alison [McGhee] and I look very much like, I was going to say Bink and Gollie, but I meant Mutt and Jeff. We look ridiculous when we walk down the street together, because she's so tall and I'm so short. But yes, tall people and short people can, and should be, friends. I, personally, like being short. I think it makes things easier.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Media, Pensamiento, Gente

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

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• Nobody ever learns anything.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Fuente: www.hbook.com

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• No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Home, Trying, Matter

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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 must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Falling In Love, Princess, Hero

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• Estaba visitando a mi madre en Florida cuando se produjeron los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001. En aquel momento estaba trabajando en El cuento de Despereaux. Ya había empezado a escribirlo con mucha inquietud y miedo, y entonces ocurrió algo espantoso y fue realmente difícil volver a casa, a Minneapolis.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Madre, Hogar, Escritura

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

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• The Watsons have lost sight of the fact that Mercy Watson is a pig, and they love her truly, madly, deeply. They live next door to two elderly sisters, Eugenia Lincoln and Baby Lincoln. Eugenia Lincoln is horrified that a pig is living in the house next door. Baby Lincoln secretly likes Mercy a great deal.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Baby, Sight, Pigs

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• Mercy Watson is a pig. She lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson, who are not pigs. I had that basic premise, but I couldn't make it work. I would come back to it, try it, see that I was failing, and put it aside.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Pigs, Trying, Failing

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• Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Theme, Happens

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• Puede haber mucha longevidad en la repetición de cosas que se cuentan una y otra vez de diversas maneras.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Way, Repetition, Longevity

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• The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Editors, Editing

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• Creo que eso es parte de cómo la gente ha respondido a The Tiger Rising. Es lo que yo llamo mi niño oscuro. Se ha metido entre dos niños superdotados que bailan claqué: Winn-Dixie y Despereaux.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Kids, Dark

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• A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

  Kate DiCamillo

  People, Dixie, Rising

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

  Kate DiCamillo

  Escribir, Sucede

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