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You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Dog
Trust
Always
Peanut
Peanuts
Butter
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A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write.
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I love words I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.
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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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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.
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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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I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.
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There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
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As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
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Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.
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Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
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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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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
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What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?
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I think of Mercy Watson like a superball there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.
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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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There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
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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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