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I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read I'll get it in his hands. I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.
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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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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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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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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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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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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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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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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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
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We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.
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Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.
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