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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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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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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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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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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.
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Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
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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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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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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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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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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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In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter. I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, Maybe they do...maybe stories matter.
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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.
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The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to be in. Stories emerge from keeping your heart open to the people that cross in front of you or the dogs or the mice, and their ability to open you up and enrich your life.
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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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Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
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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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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.
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