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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
Light
Precious
Come
Dear
Must
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World
Reader
Trust
Dark
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Stories
Closer

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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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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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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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Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. Here, you have to read this, you have to read this.
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Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.
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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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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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I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.
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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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Perhaps, said the man, you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
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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 am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.
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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.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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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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I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.
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