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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Reciprocal
Longing
Thing
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The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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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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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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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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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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[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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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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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 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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The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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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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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, I think that you might like this one [book]. So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.
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