I feel happy to terrify kids.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

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.

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.

I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy.

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.