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

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

I've killed hundreds of teenagers. Hundreds. And I didn't know why. Why did I enjoy doing it so much? Why? And then I realized - I had a teenager at home!

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

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.

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.