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Nobody ever learns anything.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Learns
Nobody
Anything
Ever

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I always wanted to be a character, when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters and I wasn't tall enough for others. I wanted to be a chipmunk I think 4'10 was the cutoff.
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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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Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.
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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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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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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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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
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The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.
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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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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.
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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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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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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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