It Is Our Duty And Our Joy

It Is Our Duty And Our Joy To Communicate Our Hearts To Each Other. Words Assist Us In This Task.

I Journal For About Half An Hour, And By The Time That's Done, The Business Day On The East Coast Has Begun. The Phone Starts To Ring, And The Rest Of The Day Is Spent Dealing With The Business Of Writing. My Workday Is Done At About 3:00.

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.

All Of That Loneliness And Longing In My Heart Got Transferred Into The Book Because Of Winn-dixie, I Guess.

Have You, In Truth, Ever Seen Something So Heartbreakingly Lovely? What Are We To Make Of A World Where Stars Shine Bright In The Midst Of So Much Darkness And Gloom?