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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.

I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.

I'm always independent. No boss.