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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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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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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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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
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The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.
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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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Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
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I think of Mercy Watson like a superball there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.
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I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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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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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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[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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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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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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