The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that. Kate DiCamillo More Quotes by Kate DiCamillo More Quotes From Kate DiCamillo As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart. Kate DiCamillo heart kids book I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart. Kate DiCamillo heart believe world Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love? Kate DiCamillo princess speak feet Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away. Kate DiCamillo beautiful-things beautiful As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well. Kate DiCamillo wells book I loved school; I loved the rules, and I liked there being right answers, wrong answers, and being able to give the right answer all the time. And that goes against who many would predict is going to go out and break rules and tell stories for a living. Kate DiCamillo wrong-answers giving school A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write. Kate DiCamillo typical coffee writing One, we [with Alison McGhee] laugh a lot - that was great. Two, I enjoy writing, but it's a lonely undertaking. To have someone in the room with me is an absolute delight and makes it seem less impossible. It became a kind of comforting, joyful process. Kate DiCamillo lonely writing two Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken. Kate DiCamillo broken heart thinking The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love. Kate DiCamillo heart mean book I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home. Kate DiCamillo florida home book My favorite food is deep-fried ravioli. I always get that every year. Kate DiCamillo favorite-foods my-favorite years 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 for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. Kate DiCamillo reading children thinking Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the book onto film as humanly possible. I think he did a fabulous job. And also I'm thrilled because the movie brings people to the book - people that wouldn't know about the book - and that's a great thing. Kate DiCamillo jobs book thinking But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole. Kate DiCamillo speak whole might Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Watson love Mercy [Watson]. Eugenia hates Mercy. Baby likes Mercy. Mercy loves toast. And the plot, if you want to be so generous as to call it a plot, turns on those elements. love Mercy. Eugenia hates Mercy. Baby likes Mercy. Mercy loves toast. And the plot, if you want to be so generous as to call it a plot, turns on those elements. Kate DiCamillo likes hate baby We were 15 minutes into it and nothing was happening; I thought, well, that's not going to work. Then all of a sudden everything clicked. I don't know how long it took us, but I would just show up at Alison's [McGhee] office. She would type and we'd just kick it back and forth. Writing is so scary for me, such a lonely endeavor, and it became a wonderful thing to show up and have somebody else go through it with me. It was actually a wonderful experience. Kate DiCamillo lonely writing long I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer. Kate DiCamillo delicate-things writing two You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now. Kate DiCamillo done judging people I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends. We had no idea how to begin this project - neither of us had ever collaborated with another writer - and I'm pretty sure that we began by giving our two friends a sock, just to see what they'd do with it. And it went from there. Kate DiCamillo two-friends writing book
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