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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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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Novel
Bigs
Book
Dipper
Children
Firefly
Writing
Grownups
Cricket
Poems
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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 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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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.
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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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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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If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
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We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.
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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 like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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The origin of each story is unique.
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Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
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I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.
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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
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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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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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