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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Make
Opens
Friendship
Doors
Inside
Persons
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I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.
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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
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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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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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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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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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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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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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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read I'll get it in his hands. I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.
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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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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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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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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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