I feel happy to terrify kids.

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

I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

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.

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.

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