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
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.
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.
brain
We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.
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.
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 I loved it, I ordered Joe's Eggs. Kate [DiCamillo] probably had a pizza, because she loves pizza.
writing challenges different
I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.
fun book writing
We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.
giving trying
Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.
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.
writing play two-friends
I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.
cute girl thinking
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 think, 'If only, if only.
writing together
Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.
world another-world
I'll live in another world, then.
fall should-have earthquakes
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 people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.