I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.

The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.