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

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

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

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.

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