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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
Stories
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Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)
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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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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
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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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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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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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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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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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Reading is my passion.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods. Words that you would like to hear are “Take me instead, I will go to the dungeon in my sons place.” There is a great deal of comfort in those words.
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At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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