I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

Often they do go back and forth the whole way, and I don't know until the very end what the last line of the book is going to be. That was true here - the very last line of the book was the last thing that happened.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"