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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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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If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
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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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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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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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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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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 work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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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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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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What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
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I think of Mercy Watson like a superball there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.
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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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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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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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The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.
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I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.
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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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