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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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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Going
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Nowhere
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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.
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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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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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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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How will the world change if we do not question it?
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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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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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At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.
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I think of Mercy Watson like a superball there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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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 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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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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Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.
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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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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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