My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.

Maybe we're all cabinets of wonders.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose...it's like you're broken.

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.