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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Storyteller
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I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.
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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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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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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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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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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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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.
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There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, I think that you might like this one [book]. So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.
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Reading is my passion.
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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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