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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
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We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.
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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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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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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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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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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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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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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)
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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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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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The origin of each story is unique.
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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.
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Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.
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To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.
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