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How will the world change if we do not question it?

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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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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I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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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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What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
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In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.
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The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears.
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
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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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Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
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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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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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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.
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What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
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