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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.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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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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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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