I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

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

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

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

I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.