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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.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.
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I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun. The phone starts to ring, and the rest of the day is spent dealing with the business of writing. My workday is done at about 3:00.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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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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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.
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The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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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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A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write.
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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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We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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