Tag: journey
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May 28, 2019
Last Saturday, I was at the International Literary Festival in Dublin. A young woman came through the signing line with a copy of Because of Winn-Dixie. She told me that she had read Winn-Dixie when she was 10 years old. And then she said, “There has not been a day since then that I have…
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May 8, 2018
The letter (from a fourth grader) begins this way: “Dear Kate DiCamillo, How do you start a journey, do you start it like Edward Tulane getting thrown overboard not only literally but also by heart . . .? How do you start a journey? You start a journey by throwing your heart overboard. This is…
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February 1, 2018
Last week, I went looking for a quote I had taped to the front of an old journal, and what I found was notes that I made as I was writing The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. On January 13 of 2002, I wrote: “I don’t understand what is going on with Edward and Abilene.…
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November 16, 2017
I’ve been traveling for a good portion of this year, but I am finally home. And now I am settling into a journey of a different sort—a novel writing journey. I keep reminding myself of E.L. Doctorow’s words about writing, that it is like driving at night. Doctorow said, “You can only see as far…
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July 11, 2017
I was out walking the other day and stopped to peruse the contents of a Little Free Library and saw the spine of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. I opened the door and pulled the book out. It was a pleasantly-battered hardcover. Someone had scotch-taped a note to the front of it. It said:…
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February 5, 2015
In my experience, telling a story and going on a journey are sort of the same. You plan, you hope, you dream, you study maps, and then you set out and–whoop–nothing happens the way you expected it would. All of which is to say that I watched Manfred setting out on his journey, believing that…