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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
Constellations
Seemed
Alone
Stars
Together

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Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.
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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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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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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
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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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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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