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I'm a visual person, so it always starts with a picture, and then I get obsessed with the idea, sometimes too much. I have these blank books in which I take notes, and I add postcards and other physical items.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

I think readers' imaginations are far more powerful than anything you can put on a page and, therefore, can conjure up graphic images for themselves, which I think you just have to nudge them towards.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own.

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.