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

All it takes is a single moment.

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

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

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.

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

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.