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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
Intention
Loving
Journey
Loved
Whole
Pointless

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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 always wanted to be a character, when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters and I wasn't tall enough for others. I wanted to be a chipmunk I think 4'10 was the cutoff.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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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 didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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I think of Mercy Watson like a superball there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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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 read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
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This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, they'll tell the kid who I am. They think they should give that to the kid. So generally that sends the kid over.
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We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.
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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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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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The origin of each story is unique.
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