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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
Always

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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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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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Reading is my passion.
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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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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
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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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The origin of each story is unique.
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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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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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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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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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Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
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Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.
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In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.
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You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
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The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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