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Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events - that was my side job while I was auditioning. I think handwritten notes are a lost art form. When I booked my first pilot, my dad wrote me a letter that I still have. The idea of someone taking the time to put pen to paper is really special.

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

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.