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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Stories
Light
World
Precious
Dark

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I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
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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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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
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How will the world change if we do not question it?
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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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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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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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.
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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
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In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.
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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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I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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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'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read I'll get it in his hands. I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.
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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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