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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
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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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.
Kate DiCamillo
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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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.
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I think of Mercy Watson like a superball there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.
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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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[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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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
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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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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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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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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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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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Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.
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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.
Kate DiCamillo
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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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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