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Nobody ever learns anything.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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How will the world change if we do not question it?
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Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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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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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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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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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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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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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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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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Perhaps, said the man, you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
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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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Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.
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