By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

I do like to be surprised.

Often they do go back and forth the whole way, and I don't know until the very end what the last line of the book is going to be. That was true here - the very last line of the book was the last thing that happened.

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

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.

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.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.