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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.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Constellations
Seemed
Alone
Stars
Together
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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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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[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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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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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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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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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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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods. Words that you would like to hear are “Take me instead, I will go to the dungeon in my sons place.” There is a great deal of comfort in those words.
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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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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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