Latest Alison McGhee Quotes from Interviews

• 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 hard not to do that. We'd start going on email back and forth, 'What do you think about this, what do you think about that?' But, no, no, no, it had to be live. So we forced ourselves not to look at it except during those two-hour stretches when we were actually with each other.

  Alison McGhee

  Pain, Thinking, Ideas

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• So we [with Kate DiCamillo] decided to give the friends an object and see what they did with it. The object was a sock and it went from there. Once we got going, once we got on a roll, it became very easy to work together and to figure out how to do it. We would meet for two-hour segments, usually from 10-12, two or three times a week. We met all one summer, and I think into the fall.

  Alison McGhee

  Summer, Fall, Thinking

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

  Alison McGhee

  Writing, Together, Kate

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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.

  Alison McGhee

  Giving, Trying, Convinced

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• 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 said, 'Wait, wait, wait, no no no,' because I'm a bit more patient.

  Alison McGhee

  Fun, Coffee, Book

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

  Alison McGhee

  Writing, Challenges, Different

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

  Alison McGhee

  Fun, Book, Writing

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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.

  Alison McGhee

  Eggs, Dinner, Restaurants

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• We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.

  Alison McGhee

  Brain, Littles

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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.

  Alison McGhee

  Summer, Fall, Mean

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• We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

  Alison McGhee

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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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.

  Alison McGhee

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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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.

  Alison McGhee

  Goal, Sticks, States

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