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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
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Prisoner
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Forgiveness
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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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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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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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I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.
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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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The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.
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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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I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.
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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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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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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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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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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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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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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.
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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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