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Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon... I literally block out Wednesday-Thursday-Friday - I more or less disappear.

When I'm drawing, I only do that at home, really, at my drawing table. But writing I could do in other places. So I've written in airports, in hotels, different places.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

I find that I'm constantly drawing. Even when I'm on holidays or when the baby's sleeping, I'll just start doing some automatic drawing, something like that, and then it will turn into a piece, even though I thought I was just doodling.