I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and hides in the corner of the closet. It's the kind of drawing that I feel like I'm really good at.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

I think we're conditioned by watching movies.

I do like to be surprised.

I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone.

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.

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