I'm German, after all.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.

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.

It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.

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 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.