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

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

In some ways I'm very structured.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.

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

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.