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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
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.
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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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I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the beginning of a story. I always have a notebook with me so that I can write down what I see and hear.
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The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.
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Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
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Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.
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Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
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We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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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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You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
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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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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
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