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The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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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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You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
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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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The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.
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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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Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
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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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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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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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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.
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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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The origin of each story is unique.
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I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read I'll get it in his hands. I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.
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I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
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In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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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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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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