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

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

I'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey. Those are two of my favorite people.

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 think we're conditioned by watching movies.

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

It's really daunting when you have just spent a lot of time on something to think about tossing it out. But once you've started something better that's working right, then it's pretty easy to let the first one go.