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The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

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

Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.

I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.