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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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I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.
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Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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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.
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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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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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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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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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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While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.
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In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter. I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, Maybe they do...maybe stories matter.
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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 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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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
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The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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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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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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