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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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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
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Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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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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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
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The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears.
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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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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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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 well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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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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The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.
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