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

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

I think we're conditioned by watching movies.

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.

There will be scenes in a movie where people are walking through the park, or through a forest, and you're seeing the flickering leaves around them, and they're walking, but you're also hearing their words. It's an interaction between where they are and what they're saying that's both visual and verbal.

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.