Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

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

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

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.

When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

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