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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?
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Philadelphia
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Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.
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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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What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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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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The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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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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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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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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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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[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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