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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
Solace
Education
Everybody
Reading
Think
Thinking
Illumination

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I think of Mercy Watson like a superball there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.
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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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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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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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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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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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I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun. The phone starts to ring, and the rest of the day is spent dealing with the business of writing. My workday is done at about 3:00.
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The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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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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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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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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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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... 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 go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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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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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
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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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