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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 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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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 have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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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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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.
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The origin of each story is unique.
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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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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.
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The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.
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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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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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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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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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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.
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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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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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