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.

We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

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 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 remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.

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