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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
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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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 don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
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There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
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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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I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
Kate DiCamillo
I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.
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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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The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.
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The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
Kate DiCamillo
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 thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
Kate DiCamillo
The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
Kate DiCamillo
Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
Kate DiCamillo
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
Kate DiCamillo
Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
Kate DiCamillo
I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.
Kate DiCamillo
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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