What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?
Alison McGheeWe 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.
Alison McGheeKate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.
Alison McGheeI 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.
Alison McGheeSo we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, sometimes it was such a pain in the ass. Our other rule was that we wouldn't work on it at all when we weren't in the other's presence. It was really hard not to do that. We'd start going on email back and forth, 'What do you think about this, what do you think about that?' But, no, no, no, it had to be live. So we forced ourselves not to look at it except during those two-hour stretches when we were actually with each other.
Alison McGhee