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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
Precious
Dark
Stories
Light
World

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The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears.
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Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)
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In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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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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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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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.
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I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun. The phone starts to ring, and the rest of the day is spent dealing with the business of writing. My workday is done at about 3:00.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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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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Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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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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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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