Alison McGhee
Alison McGhee
Alison McGheeis an American author, who has published several picture books, books for children, and adult novels. She is a New York Times bestselling author, the winner of numerous awards, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Shadow Baby...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth8 July 1960
CountryUnited States of America
Alison McGhee quotes about
summer fall thinking
So we [with Kate DiCamillo] decided to give the friends an object and see what they did with it. The object was a sock and it went from there. Once we got going, once we got on a roll, it became very easy to work together and to figure out how to do it. We would meet for two-hour segments, usually from 10-12, two or three times a week. We met all one summer, and I think into the fall.
summer fall mean
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.
brain
We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.
pain thinking laughing
So 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.
goal
I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.
writing together
Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.
fun book writing
We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.
writing challenges different
I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.
fun book coffee
We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what to do. How do you start writing a book together? So Kate [DiCamillo] got up after about 10 minutes into this endeavor, and said, 'Well, that was fun,' and started to head out the door. I said, 'Wait, wait, wait, no no no,' because I'm a bit more patient.
giving trying
Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.
book writing thinking
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.
book thinking
We 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.
powerful expectations people
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.
mother son boys
Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now