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

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 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.

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

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.

I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.