I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together. — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...? — Alison McGhee Copy Share
We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what to do.… — Alison McGhee Copy Share
Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either… — Alison McGhee Copy Share
Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over. — Alison McGhee Copy Share
Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every… — Alison McGhee Copy Share
So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it… — Alison McGhee Copy Share
I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do… — Alison McGhee Copy Share
We met in the summer or fall of 2001. I had never met Kate [DiCamillo], though I'd heard her name, and I think she… — Alison McGhee Copy Share
It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look… — Alison McGhee Copy Share
I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality… — Alison McGhee Copy Share
