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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Think
Thinking
Illumination
Solace
Education
Everybody
Reading

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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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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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Reading is my passion.
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Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.
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The words, I have a dog named Winn-Dixie, popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern accent. I'd been writing long enough at that point to know not to ignore that kind of red flag. The next day, I put aside what I'd been working on, started with that one sentence, and followed it all the way to the end.
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The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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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 feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
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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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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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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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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read I'll get it in his hands. I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.
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In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
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For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing I wanted to be a Writer.
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