Alison McGhee Quotes

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

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.

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

Wouldn’t want to miss a war, would I?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.