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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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Friendships
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.
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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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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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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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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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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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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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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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Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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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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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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