Alison McGhee Quotes

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

You are most powerful when you are most silent.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

All it takes is a single moment.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'll live in another world, then.

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