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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.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Names
Sure
Lasts
Last
Every
Creatures
Doubt

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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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Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
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What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
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I love words I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.
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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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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
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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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Nobody ever learns anything.
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There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, I think that you might like this one [book]. So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.
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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 of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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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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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.
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I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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