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

We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

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.

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

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 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.

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