When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

I think Laurie's Keller story 'We are growing', resonates because when you have that amount of independence, you're starting to ask yourself questions that the grownups in your life have been answering for you. Before that, you are a good kid, or you are a funny kid, because you're told that's who you are. But when it's just you and the book, you have to figure out who you are.

I also learn a lot about everybody else's process. People create in different ways, so that has opened me up to different processes and experimenting. Laurie Keller is a character person, so she came to the project with these blades-of-grass characters that we were able to literally grow a story around.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.