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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
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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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[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 didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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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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... 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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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 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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While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.
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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I can't say I'm happy when I read that editorial letter. It is always a little painful and scary. But I have learned that - bit by bit - I can make the changes and do the work.
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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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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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In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.
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What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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