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There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, I think that you might like this one [book]. So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.
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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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
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[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, What are you working on now? And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said It doesn't matter at all now.
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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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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.
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Nobody ever learns anything.
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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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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.
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Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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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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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.
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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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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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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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