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

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

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

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!

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

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.