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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
Nowhere
Thing
Love

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The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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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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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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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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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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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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He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
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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 write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.
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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
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