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 ….

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….

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….

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….

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..

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….

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 ….

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 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….

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 ….

All it takes is a single moment..

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

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

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

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

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….

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 ….

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

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….

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge..

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains..