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

I creep over to my chair and sit there with my notebook and my thermos of coffee. It's my best time for thinking, because I haven't started thinking about anything else yet, and the thoughts can kind of go in and out of my head.

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.

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

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

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'm structured with time.