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

There will be scenes in a movie where people are walking through the park, or through a forest, and you're seeing the flickering leaves around them, and they're walking, but you're also hearing their words. It's an interaction between where they are and what they're saying that's both visual and verbal.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

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.

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.

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