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Kate DiCamillo

"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."

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"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."

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Akshay Vasu

"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."

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Akshay Vasu

"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."

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Akshay Vasu

"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."

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Akshay Vasu

"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."

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Akshay Vasu

"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."

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Akshay Vasu

"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

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Akshay Vasu

"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."

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Akshay Vasu

"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."

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Akshay Vasu

"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."

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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

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Kate DiCamillo
"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."

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Kate DiCamillo
"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."

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Kate DiCamillo
"I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them."

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Kate DiCamillo
"I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading."

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Kate DiCamillo
"I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children."

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Kate DiCamillo
"I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults."

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Kate DiCamillo
"I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play."

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Kate DiCamillo
"I hate to cook and love to eat."

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Kate DiCamillo
"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift."

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Kate DiCamillo
"My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too."

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