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I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.
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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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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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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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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I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.
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[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, What are you working on now? And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said It doesn't matter at all now.
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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