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

I'll live in another world, then.

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.

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.

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

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

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.