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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
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Mets
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Gollie
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Bink
Think
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Tony
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.
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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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Nobody ever learns anything.
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The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.
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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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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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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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Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.
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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
Kate DiCamillo
[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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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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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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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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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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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
Kate DiCamillo
You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
Kate DiCamillo
The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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