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You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.

Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.

I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching.

When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.

My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

When I'm writing, I'm creating the story and its character with words. I'm thinking about what the pictures will be like, but I never begin to sketch. The pictures are all in my head.

I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used to doing.