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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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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Open
Dark
Community
Magically
Light
Warmth
Sometimes
Step
Time
Doors
Steps
Inside

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To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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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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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too, then I feel like my time has been well spent.
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I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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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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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.
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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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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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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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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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