Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo
Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo is an American writer of children's fiction for all reading levels, usually featuring animals. She is one of six people to win two Newbery Medals, recognizing her novels The Tale of Despereauxand Flora and Ulysses. Her best-known books for young children are Mercy Watson series illustrated by Chris Van Dusen...
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth25 March 1964
CityPhiladelphia, PA
book writing goal
May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
stars differences doe
I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?
heart broken wish
Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me
jobs children book
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.
book writing two-friends
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.
heart broken how-to-love
I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
children aunt lovely
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
expanding-universe expanding universe
You are the ever-expanding universe to me
powerful like-love ridiculous
And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
heart mouths soup
There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
coffee writing thinking
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.
writing play scary
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.
writing rewriting screenplays
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
magic impossible ends
Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.