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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Hearts
Duty
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Heart
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Communicate
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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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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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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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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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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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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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The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.
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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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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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The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
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The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.
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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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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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I love words I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.
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