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I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
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'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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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.
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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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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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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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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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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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Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.
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The origin of each story is unique.
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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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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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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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I love words I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.
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