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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Enormously
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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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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
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When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.
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Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
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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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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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We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.
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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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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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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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I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read I'll get it in his hands. I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.
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How will the world change if we do not question it?
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I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.
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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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I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
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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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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
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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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