I feel happy to terrify kids.

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.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

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

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.

The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.

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

Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

If we all die and there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong... you'll know forever.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

A closed fist cannot give. How can one give when the fist is closed? Yet, most people approach relationships with a closed heart. How can one give love when the heart is closed?

A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well.

It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.

Spontaneity has its time and its place.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

Men Against Jive is a brilliant title! That's a military story, that's a difficult one to explain really because that's sort of a war... it's not just a war story.

Mystery keeps man alive; it opens his ears, his eyes, and his mind! Find a mystery and try to solve it!

There's no set futures, only the one we make." - Marina / Seven