I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

So, yes, at least from my end. You could say there's a lot of Alison [McGhee] in Gollie too.

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.