I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

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

In some ways I'm very structured.

I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not.

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 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 would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.