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 had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.

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

In some ways I'm very structured.

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

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

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.