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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.
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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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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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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I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
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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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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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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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