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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
Kate DiCamillo
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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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All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
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Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.
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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the beginning of a story. I always have a notebook with me so that I can write down what I see and hear.
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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 thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.
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At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.
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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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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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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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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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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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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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