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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.
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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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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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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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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We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
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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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All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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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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