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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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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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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The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.
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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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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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We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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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 didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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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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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.
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I always wanted to be a character, when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters and I wasn't tall enough for others. I wanted to be a chipmunk I think 4'10 was the cutoff.
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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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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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