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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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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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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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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There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
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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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[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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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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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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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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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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The origin of each story is unique.
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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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What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.
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The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.
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