I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

Ben remembered reading about curators in "Wonderstruck", and thought about what id meant to curate your own life, as his dad had done here. What would it be like to pick and choose the objects and stories that would go in your own cabinet? How would Ben curate his own life? And then, thinking about his museum box, and his house, and his books, and the secret room, he realized he'd already begun doing it. Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

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