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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
Men
Mice
Soup
Culinary
Littles
Body
Better
Little
Made
Mouse

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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 thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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I always wanted to be a character, when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters and I wasn't tall enough for others. I wanted to be a chipmunk I think 4'10 was the cutoff.
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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 was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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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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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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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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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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I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun. The phone starts to ring, and the rest of the day is spent dealing with the business of writing. My workday is done at about 3:00.
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Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.
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I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
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When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.
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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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No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
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Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
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The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.
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