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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Connect
Read
Another
Together
World

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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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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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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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The origin of each story is unique.
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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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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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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter. I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, Maybe they do...maybe stories matter.
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The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
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There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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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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Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.
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Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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