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

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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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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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.
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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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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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There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
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Nobody ever learns anything.
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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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Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
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I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun. The phone starts to ring, and the rest of the day is spent dealing with the business of writing. My workday is done at about 3:00.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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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 like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
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I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.
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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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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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