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" Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter. "

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

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

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

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

" Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising. "

" I should be concentrating on writing pages. "

" 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 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 drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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