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

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.

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.

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.

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 had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.