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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Foot
Feet
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In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.
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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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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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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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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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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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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.
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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.
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What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
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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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You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.
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