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" I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning. "

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

" 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. "

" If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I should be concentrating on writing pages. "

" I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction. "

" 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. "

" Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying. "

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

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

" At least I can write. "

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

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

" Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown. "

" 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 feel happy to terrify kids. "

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

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

" After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York. "

" 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. "