I don't think about it that much, but sometimes I am surprised by that. I sometimes wonder why I didn't turn out to be the kind of picture-book writer who has stuffed animals that go with their books. That would be okay with me.

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 generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

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.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

I'm structured with time.

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.