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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.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Things
Open
World
Books
Understand
Kids
Stills
Deepen
Still
Helped
Book
Looked
Heart
Changed

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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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How will the world change if we do not question it?
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The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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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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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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Reading is my passion.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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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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