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There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
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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[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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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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I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met 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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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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The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.
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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.
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We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.
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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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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.
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I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
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