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 really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.

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

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

I'm structured with time.

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.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.