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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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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Started
Girl
Way
Alison
Tall
Short
Plans
Beyond

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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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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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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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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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[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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