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

I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and hides in the corner of the closet. It's the kind of drawing that I feel like I'm really good at.

It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.

I creep over to my chair and sit there with my notebook and my thermos of coffee. It's my best time for thinking, because I haven't started thinking about anything else yet, and the thoughts can kind of go in and out of my head.

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

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