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Amy Krouse Rosenthal

SHORT BIO:

Amy Krouse Rosenthal was.

She divided her time.

NOT SO SHORT BIO:

Amy Krouse Rosenthal was a person who liked to make things.

Some things she liked to make include:

Children's books. (Little Pea, Spoon, DuckRabbit)

Grown-up books. (Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life)

Short films. (The Beckoning of Lovely, The Money Tree)

Guided journals. (The Belly Book)

Something out of nothing. (see above)

A longtime contributor to WBEZ and to the TED conference,

Amy lived with her family in Chicago and online at whoisamy.com.


“A good soup attracts chairs. This is an African proverb. I can hear the shuffling and squeaking on the wood floor, the gathering 'round. This, from just five well-chosen words.”
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“My brother, who grew up with three sisters, was I won't say how many years old when he finally realized that he did not have to wrap the towel around his chest when he came out of the shower.”
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“A friend sat next to a nun on a plane. He asked her what she missed most. "Wearing blue jeans," she replied.”
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“On the occasions where we do have to participate, to do more than nothing, it is desirable to have a glass of wine to soften all the everything.”
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“I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.”
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“In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.”
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“To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple pages, then flip around to somewhere in the middle, see if the language matches me somehow. It's like dating, only with sentences......It could be something as simple yet weirdly potent as a single word (tangerine). We're meant to be, that sentence and me. And when it happens, you just know.”
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“It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.”
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“It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.”
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“cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend”
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“ADMIRE means, I really look up to you and the way you are with your cookies. You remind me of what is good and possible in this world.”
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“I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.”
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“If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.”
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