You Can Make Up Your Own Story

I Can Draw Pencil Lines To Show Something Is Moving, But If I'm Writing, I Struggle With How To Write It. The Boy Ran Down The Hallway? The Boy Ran Quickly Down The Hallway? The Boy Ran Down The Marble Hallway? I Agonize Over The Words. So My Editor Works Very Hard. I'm Lucky To Have Her.

Even If All The Clocks In The Station Break Down, Thought Hugo, Time Won't Stop. Not Even If You Really Want It To. Like Now.

My House Had Suddenly Turned Into A Hospital Ward.

I Guess I See A Part Of Myself In Everyone I Write About. I Tend To Write About Kids Who Are Obsessed With Something, And Even Though I Have Never Been Good With Machines The Way Hugo Is, I Did Love Miniature Things When I Was A Kid.

I Love Being An Illustrator Because I Get To Read Really Great Stories, Work With Amazing People, Travel And See Places I Never Would've Seen. And I Get To Draw All The Time.