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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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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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When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.
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Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
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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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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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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.
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I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read I'll get it in his hands. I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.
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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
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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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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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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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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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