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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
Great
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Happen
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Maybe
World
Moving

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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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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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You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
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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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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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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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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.
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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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I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read I'll get it in his hands. I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.
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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
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Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.
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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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If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
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