Kate DiCamillo Quotes
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

Quotes to Explore
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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My first thought is always of light.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.
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Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
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From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.
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The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.
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I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.