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

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.

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

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

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

We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

I do like to be surprised.