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" I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.' "

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" I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips. "

" I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write. "

" When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books. "

" I feel happy to terrify kids. "

" Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age. "

" I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World. "

" When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous. "

" I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary. "

" So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience. "

" I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college. "

" I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series. "

" I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. "

" A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning. "

" When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it. "

" I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams. "

" Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that. "

" I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that! "

" At least I can write. "

" Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special. "

" Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book. "

" I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now. "

" It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success. "

" I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now. "

" I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real. "

" I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block. "

" I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself. "

" I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction. "

" Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles. "

" If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles. "

" People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week. "