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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.
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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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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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[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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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.
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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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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
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Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.
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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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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
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Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.
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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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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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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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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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