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

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

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've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

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