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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.
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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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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Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
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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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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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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.
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We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
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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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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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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 far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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