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've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

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.

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

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'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.

The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.