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

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

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.

I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.

It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.

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