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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!
Kate DiCamillo
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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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We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.
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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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I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
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Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.
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I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.
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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
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All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
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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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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 am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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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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