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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.
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Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the beginning of a story. I always have a notebook with me so that I can write down what I see and hear.
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The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.
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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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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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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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The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears.
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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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How will the world change if we do not question it?
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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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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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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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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The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.
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The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.
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I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.
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I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.
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The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.
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