I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

What is China but a people and their stories?

Coming from the world of comics, I was very surprised that writers and illustrators, for the most part, don't talk, and they don't collaborate.

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

As somebody who's kind of a technophile, I'm interested in how traditional and digital publishing connect. Maybe ten years ago they were seen as antagonists, but now they complement each other. There's data that shows digital sales actually drive print sales. And even the ways in which pictures and words, text and image, interact - we're seeing these books that are very hard to categorize. All of that is very exciting to me.

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.