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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
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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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What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.
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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
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I love words I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.
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In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.
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Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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