Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over..

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now.

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 ….

All it takes is a single moment..

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?.

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 thr….

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..

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one….

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, so….

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?.

There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it will i give up, for my beautiful sister Ivy who lies….

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..

We had dinner at Figlio's, which has turned into a restaurant called Il Gato. I'm 99% positive I had Joe's Eggs. I know every time I went there, and ….

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand ….

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect….

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 w….

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 w….

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and thin….

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

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 ….

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together..