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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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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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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.
Kate DiCamillo
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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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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Perhaps, said the man, you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
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Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I can't say I'm happy when I read that editorial letter. It is always a little painful and scary. But I have learned that - bit by bit - I can make the changes and do the work.
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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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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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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
Kate DiCamillo
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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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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The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.
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Reading is my passion.
Kate DiCamillo
It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
Kate DiCamillo
I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun. The phone starts to ring, and the rest of the day is spent dealing with the business of writing. My workday is done at about 3:00.
Kate DiCamillo