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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the beginning of a story. I always have a notebook with me so that I can write down what I see and hear.
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Nobody ever learns anything.
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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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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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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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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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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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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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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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Reading is my passion.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.
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Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.
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The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears.
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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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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Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.
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