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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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I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun. The phone starts to ring, and the rest of the day is spent dealing with the business of writing. My workday is done at about 3:00.
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Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.
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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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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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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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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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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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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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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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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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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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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.
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We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
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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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Nobody ever learns anything.
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