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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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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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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
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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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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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I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.
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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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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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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.
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I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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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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The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter. I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, Maybe they do...maybe stories matter.
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I think of Mercy Watson like a superball there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.
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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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