Literary Birthday – 25 March – Kate DiCamillo
Happy Birthday, Kate DiCamillo, born on 25 March 1964.
Kate DiCamillo Quotes
- Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
- Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Make some light.
- I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
- 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.
- 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.
- ‘Once upon a time,’ he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
Writing Tips from Kate’s website
Read: Kate DiCamillo’s 6 Writing Tips
Kate DiCamillo is an award-winning American writer of children’s fiction. She has published over 25 novels and sold 37 million copies of them. She won a Newbery Medal in 2004 for The Tale of Despereaux
and another in 2014 for Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. Another of her books, Because of Winn-Dixie was a runner-up. She is also a two-time nominee for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature. Her books have been adapted for film and stage. Her work explores themes of loss and abandonment, with her protagonists finding redemption and joy in the end. The Library of Congress named DiCamillo the new national ambassador for young people’s literature from 2014-2015. Her latest book is Lost Evangeline, the final book in the Norendy Tales series. Follow her on Facebook.
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