Short Girl Quotes

• While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.

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  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl   Writing   Tall  

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.publishersweekly.com. September 9, 2010.

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• Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.

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  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl   Summer   Talking  

  Interview with Eliza Borné, bookpage.com. September 2010.

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• Tall girls are hot. Short girls are cute.

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  Harry Styles

  Cute   Girl   Hot  

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• I was over at Alison's [McGhee], I think we were playing Scrabble. I remember we were both complaining - yeah, we sound like whiners - about how hard writing is, and how we didn't have a story to work on. Alison said, 'Why don't we work on writing something together,' and I said, 'Eh, I don't know if I could work that way.' She said, 'Well, just show up here and we'll see,' and I said, 'Well, what would it be about?' She said, 'Duh, it'd be about a tall girl and a short girl.' So I agreed to come and try it for a day.

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  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl   Writing   Thinking  

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.teachingbooks.net. September 9, 2010.

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• The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.

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  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl   Way   Said  

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.teachingbooks.net. September 9, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Alison McGhee

  Cute   Girl   Thinking  

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