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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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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Soup
Culinary
Littles
Body
Better
Little
Made
Mouse
Men
Mice

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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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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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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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[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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Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
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Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)
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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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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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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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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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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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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
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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 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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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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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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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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There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, I think that you might like this one [book]. So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.
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