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.

You are most powerful when you are most silent.

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.

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.

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

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.