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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
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
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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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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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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
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Reading is my passion.
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.
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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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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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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
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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 undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter. I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, Maybe they do...maybe stories matter.
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