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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
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Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.
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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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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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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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Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
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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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The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.
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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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