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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Absolutely
Writer
Interest
Understand
Wanted
Writing

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The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.
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In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.
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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 undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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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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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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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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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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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
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Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)
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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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What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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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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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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The words, I have a dog named Winn-Dixie, popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern accent. I'd been writing long enough at that point to know not to ignore that kind of red flag. The next day, I put aside what I'd been working on, started with that one sentence, and followed it all the way to the end.
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