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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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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Prepare
Realize
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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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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.
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If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
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I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.
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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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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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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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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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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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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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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 think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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The origin of each story is unique.
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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 think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods. Words that you would like to hear are “Take me instead, I will go to the dungeon in my sons place.” There is a great deal of comfort in those words.
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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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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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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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