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The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to be in. Stories emerge from keeping your heart open to the people that cross in front of you or the dogs or the mice, and their ability to open you up and enrich your life.

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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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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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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The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears.
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The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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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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I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
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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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No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
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Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
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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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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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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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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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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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What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
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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 think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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