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.

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

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.

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.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

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