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One of the things that made me try writing novels was I could take time off to be with the kids. That's the practical side of what I love about the writing life.

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.

I feel lucky that my career so far has included books for adults and books for kids. They're equally important to me, and I hope I get to continue writing both.

I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.