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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
World
Reader
Trust
Dark
Story
Stories
Closer
Light
Precious
Come
Dear
Must
Telling

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I love words I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.
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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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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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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.
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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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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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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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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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To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.
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What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
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As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.
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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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The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.
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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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The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to be in. Stories emerge from keeping your heart open to the people that cross in front of you or the dogs or the mice, and their ability to open you up and enrich your life.
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I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
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Reading is my passion.
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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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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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