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I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. Here, you have to read this, you have to read this.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Making
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Life
Friendships
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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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No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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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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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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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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Nobody ever learns anything.
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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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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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I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.
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You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, they'll tell the kid who I am. They think they should give that to the kid. So generally that sends the kid over.
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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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Reading is my passion.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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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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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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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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