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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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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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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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Reading is my passion.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
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I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.
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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.
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I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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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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When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I can't say I'm happy when I read that editorial letter. It is always a little painful and scary. But I have learned that - bit by bit - I can make the changes and do the work.
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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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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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Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.
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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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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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