Occupation: Writer Birth: March 25, 1964
If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former Figlio's restaurant in Minneapolis….
There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work..
I like to think of myself as a storyteller..
Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time..
But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole..
[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 princ….
It's a weird kind of disconnect that this whole story [he Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] grew around a real doll of mine, and here he is, with ….
I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head..
The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him..
The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his mother, when he and his father move….
The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The….
I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison McGhee], but they certainly draw on our phy….
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer..
The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the hum….
I don't think about being a celebrity..
If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless..
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..
It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor..
I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything out but rather adding, be….
I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book..
They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere.