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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Pointless
Intention
Loving
Journey
Loved
Whole

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A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write.
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In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.
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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.
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I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun. The phone starts to ring, and the rest of the day is spent dealing with the business of writing. My workday is done at about 3:00.
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Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
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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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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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The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.
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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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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.
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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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Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.
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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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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?
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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