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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
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Everybody
Reading
Think
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Illumination
Solace
Education
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I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.
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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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There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
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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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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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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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In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.
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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
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Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
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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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I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.
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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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Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he wouldn't go away after I'd finished the short story. I couldn't figure out what he wanted, so I wrote to find out.
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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
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We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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