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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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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 have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too, then I feel like my time has been well spent.
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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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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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Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.
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You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
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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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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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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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[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
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