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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
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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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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[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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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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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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We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.
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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
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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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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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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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Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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