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To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Keep
Happens
Kids
Book
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Happen
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Maybe
World
Moving

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Perhaps, said the man, you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.
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He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
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What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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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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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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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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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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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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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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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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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
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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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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
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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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I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.
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[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
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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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