Alison McGhee

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

— Alison McGhee

“Living without love is worse than dying, Younger." William T.”

— Alison McGhee

We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what…

— Alison McGhee

Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop…

— Alison McGhee

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

— Alison McGhee

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers.…

— Alison McGhee

So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue.…

— Alison McGhee

I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not…

— Alison McGhee

We met in the summer or fall of 2001. I had never met Kate [DiCamillo], though I'd heard her name, and I…

— Alison McGhee

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would…

— Alison McGhee

I'll live in another world, then.

— Alison McGhee

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

— Alison McGhee

I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the…

— Alison McGhee

“And she tried to breathe.”

— Alison McGhee

“They were stupid, stupid people.”

— Alison McGhee

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An…

— Alison McGhee

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth.…

— Alison McGhee

“Air you breathe holds the breath of all things.”

— Alison McGhee

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.

— Alison McGhee

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

— Alison McGhee

“There comes a time, Younger," he says, "when the book must be put aside, and the pedal put to the metal. And…

— Alison McGhee

There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it will…

— Alison McGhee

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

— Alison McGhee

We had dinner at Figlio's, which has turned into a restaurant called Il Gato. I'm 99% positive I had Joe's Eggs. I…

— Alison McGhee

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.

— Alison McGhee