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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Life
Wonderful
Difficult
Beautiful
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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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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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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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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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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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 was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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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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Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
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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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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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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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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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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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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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