If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

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

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

I have a great office.

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 always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.