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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Wonderful
Upon
Play
Prisoner
Joke
Forgiveness
Jokes
Promise

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This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, they'll tell the kid who I am. They think they should give that to the kid. So generally that sends the kid over.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.
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Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.
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... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.
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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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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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Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.
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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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The words, I have a dog named Winn-Dixie, popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern accent. I'd been writing long enough at that point to know not to ignore that kind of red flag. The next day, I put aside what I'd been working on, started with that one sentence, and followed it all the way to the end.
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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.
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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he wouldn't go away after I'd finished the short story. I couldn't figure out what he wanted, so I wrote to find out.
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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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All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
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We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
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