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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Nothing
Worse
War

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Perhaps, said the man, you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
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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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The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
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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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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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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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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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No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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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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The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to be in. Stories emerge from keeping your heart open to the people that cross in front of you or the dogs or the mice, and their ability to open you up and enrich your life.
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What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.
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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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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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I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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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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