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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
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Wonderful
Difficult
Beautiful
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Life

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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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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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Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter. I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, Maybe they do...maybe stories matter.
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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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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
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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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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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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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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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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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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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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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Nobody ever learns anything.
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
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In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.
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