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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
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Enormously
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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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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
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The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
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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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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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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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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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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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