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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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When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I can't say I'm happy when I read that editorial letter. It is always a little painful and scary. But I have learned that - bit by bit - I can make the changes and do the work.
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He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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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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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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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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