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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
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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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 didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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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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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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Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)
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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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We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.
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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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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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I always wanted to be a character, when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters and I wasn't tall enough for others. I wanted to be a chipmunk I think 4'10 was the cutoff.
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In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.
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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
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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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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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