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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
Thinking
Illumination
Solace
Education
Everybody
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We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.
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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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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.
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Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the beginning of a story. I always have a notebook with me so that I can write down what I see and hear.
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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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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 don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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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 don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.
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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 was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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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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Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
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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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The origin of each story is unique.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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