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You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Together
Constellations
Seemed
Alone
Stars

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Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he wouldn't go away after I'd finished the short story. I couldn't figure out what he wanted, so I wrote to find out.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
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If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
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Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.
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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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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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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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Perhaps, said the man, you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
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I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.
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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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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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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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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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