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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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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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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 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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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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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.
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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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