I do like to be surprised.

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

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

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.

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.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

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.