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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
Inside
Persons
Person
Make
Opens
Friendship
Doors

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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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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, What are you working on now? And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said It doesn't matter at all now.
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Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
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I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
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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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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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Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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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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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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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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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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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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How will the world change if we do not question it?
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The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.
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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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