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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.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.
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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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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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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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I always wanted to be a character, when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters and I wasn't tall enough for others. I wanted to be a chipmunk I think 4'10 was the cutoff.
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I love words I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.
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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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Nobody ever learns anything.
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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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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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The origin of each story is unique.
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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
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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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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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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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