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
my-favorite
My favorite food is deep-fried ravioli. I always get that every year.
believe writing thinking
It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as helpful to have people who don't believe in you, people who mock you, people who doubt you, people who enrage you. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of this type of person in the world ... write for yourself. Write for the story. And write, also, for all of the people who doubt you. Write for all those people who are not brave enough to do this grand and wondrous thing themselves. Let them motivate you.
sadness names someone-you-love
There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.
moving-on letting-go leaving
There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.
seems
Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.