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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
Time
Doors
Steps
Inside
Open
Dark
Community
Magically
Light
Warmth
Sometimes
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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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I love words I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.
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Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the beginning of a story. I always have a notebook with me so that I can write down what I see and hear.
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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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I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
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While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.
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[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, What are you working on now? And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said It doesn't matter at all now.
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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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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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
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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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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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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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