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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work.

Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.

I tend to write more when I travel.

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.

I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.