She Comes By Night, In Fearsome Flight,

I Write The Poems First, With Only A Few Exceptions For Odd Reasons, Where I'm Given The Illustration First.

There's Not Too Much Difference Between Writing A Picture Book And Writing A Collection Of A Hundred Poems Or So, Except That The Bigger Books Take A Lot Longer To Do.

Poetry Seems To Sink Into Us The Way Prose Doesn't. I Can Still Quote Verses I Learned When I Was Very Young, But I Have Trouble Remembering One Line Of A Novel I Just Finished Reading.

If You Don't Believe In Dragons, It Is Curiously True That The Dragons You Disparage Choose To Not Believe In You.

I Would Go To Sketch Groups And Draw. I Really Enjoyed The Subject Matter, But I Wasn't Good At It.