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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.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Philadelphia
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Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.
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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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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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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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As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.
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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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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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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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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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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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Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.
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When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I can't say I'm happy when I read that editorial letter. It is always a little painful and scary. But I have learned that - bit by bit - I can make the changes and do the work.
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