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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.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
People
Tell
Found
Stories
Busier
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Imagined
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Supposed
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Blessed
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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 draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.
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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 like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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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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There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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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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[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, What are you working on now? And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said It doesn't matter at all now.
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The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to be in. Stories emerge from keeping your heart open to the people that cross in front of you or the dogs or the mice, and their ability to open you up and enrich your life.
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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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I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
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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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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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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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Perhaps, said the man, you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
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