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

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.

One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I had no idea was going to happen.

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 love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

I think we're conditioned by watching movies.

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