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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
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[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, What are you working on now? And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said It doesn't matter at all now.
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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.
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
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All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
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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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If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
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Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
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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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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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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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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
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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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How will the world change if we do not question it?
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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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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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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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The words, I have a dog named Winn-Dixie, popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern accent. I'd been writing long enough at that point to know not to ignore that kind of red flag. The next day, I put aside what I'd been working on, started with that one sentence, and followed it all the way to the end.
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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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[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 way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.
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