Comics taught me how to write, and also patience and confidence.

You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched and read over and over. Maybe even chewed on a little. Everything needs to be thoughtful and economical, thirty-two little masterpieces.

Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions.

I'm one of those people with restless hands. I need to be doodling, or biting my nails, or making socks.

Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.

Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!