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Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.
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
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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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A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write.
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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!
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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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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to be in. Stories emerge from keeping your heart open to the people that cross in front of you or the dogs or the mice, and their ability to open you up and enrich your life.
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.
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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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The words, I have a dog named Winn-Dixie, popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern accent. I'd been writing long enough at that point to know not to ignore that kind of red flag. The next day, I put aside what I'd been working on, started with that one sentence, and followed it all the way to the end.
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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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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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Perhaps, said the man, you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
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I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
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The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
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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.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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