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But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.