There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy.

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.