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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
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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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.
Kate DiCamillo
It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
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Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.
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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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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
Kate DiCamillo
The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.
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Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.
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Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.
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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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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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I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.
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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.
Kate DiCamillo
How will the world change if we do not question it?
Kate DiCamillo
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
Kate DiCamillo
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 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.
Kate DiCamillo
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.
Kate DiCamillo
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.
Kate DiCamillo
