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

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.

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.

I need to write, and I can't write when I'm on the road.

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

I've been recognized in airports lots of places, but mostly getting recognized is at home.