You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“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. How do you start writing a book together? So Kate [DiCamillo] got up after about 10 minutes into this endeavor, and said, 'Well, that was fun,' and started to head out the door. I…” quote by Alison McGhee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/88f/alison-mcghee-15698_bits_we-d-decided-to-write-a-book-about-two-f_282606.jpg)
![“Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.” quote by Alison McGhee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/118/alison-mcghee-15698_change_kate-dicamillo-tends-to-be-more-reluctan_328771.jpg)
![“So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, sometimes it was such a pain in the ass. Our other rule was that we wouldn't work on it at all when we weren't in the other's presence. It was really…” quote by Alison McGhee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ea6/alison-mcghee-15698_arguing_so-we-with-kate-dicamillo-would-act-them_382879.jpg)
![“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 knew of me too. We were laughing within a few minutes, I mean really, furiously, laughing. So we were off to a good start.” quote by Alison McGhee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b5f/alison-mcghee-15698_fall_we-met-in-the-summer-or-fall-of-2001-i-h_517595.jpg)
