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

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

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

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.

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

Well, I hate it when authors come into a school and they say to kids, 'Write from your heart, only write what you know, and write from your heart.' I hate that because it's useless. I've written over 300 books - not one was written from my heart. Not one. They were all written for an audience, they were all written to entertain a certain audience.

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