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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
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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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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No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
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If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
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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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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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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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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
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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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