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If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Philadelphia
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Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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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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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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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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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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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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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 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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