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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
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Alison McGhee
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 8
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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.
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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 one of them finds its way to the ocean.
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Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.
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I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.
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Walk slowly all you can ever come to is yourself.
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We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.
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We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.
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I'll live in another world, then.
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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 at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.
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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 from beating or breaking.
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All it takes is a single moment.
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Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?
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Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now
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I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.
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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 the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.
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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. Silence? No.
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Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.
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You are most powerful when you are most silent.
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There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it will i give up, for my beautiful sister Ivy who lies in bed. Ivy who used to be alive. Ivy who used to be. Ivy who used. Ivy who. Ivy-who-is-not-me. Not me. Not me. Not me.
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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 know every time I went there, and I loved it, I ordered Joe's Eggs. Kate [DiCamillo] probably had a pizza, because she loves pizza.
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