I creep over to my chair and sit there with my notebook and my thermos of coffee. It's my best time for thinking, because I haven't started thinking about anything else yet, and the thoughts can kind of go in and out of my head.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not.

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

I creep over to my chair and sit there with my notebook and my thermos of coffee. It's my best time for thinking, because I haven't started thinking about anything else yet, and the thoughts can kind of go in and out of my head.