Kate DiCamillo and I went to the same school at the same time, I just learned. So I checked out her website.
FAQ:
Q: Where do you get your ideas?
A: Every writer in the world gets asked the question.
The best answer to that question is another question — where does a spider get its thread? From its own guts — which is a little less graphic that the image of writing as nothing less than sitting in front of a typewriter and opening a vein.
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