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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
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The origin of each story is unique.
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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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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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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.
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Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.
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When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.
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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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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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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
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Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.
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