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

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

You are most powerful when you are most silent.

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.

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

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.

All it takes is a single moment.