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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.