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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Philadelphia
Currently
Adults
Born
Write
Live
Children
Writing
Minneapolis

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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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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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He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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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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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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The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.
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I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.
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A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write.
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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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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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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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What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
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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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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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While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.
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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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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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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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