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The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Trust
Dark
Story
Stories
Closer
Light
Precious
Come
Dear
Must
Telling
World
Reader

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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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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too, then I feel like my time has been well spent.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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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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What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
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All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
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The origin of each story is unique.
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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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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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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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Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.
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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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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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The words, I have a dog named Winn-Dixie, popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern accent. I'd been writing long enough at that point to know not to ignore that kind of red flag. The next day, I put aside what I'd been working on, started with that one sentence, and followed it all the way to the end.
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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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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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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, I think that you might like this one [book]. So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.
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