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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Love
Nowhere
Thing

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We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.
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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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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
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No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
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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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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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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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Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)
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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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Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
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How will the world change if we do not question it?
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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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The origin of each story is unique.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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