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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

Because Books Fun Grew
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I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.

Going Know Laugh Lock
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

Books Chicken Go ILove
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
After Came College ICame
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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

About Find Make Married
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

Good Morning Obsessed Radio
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

Definitely Ralph Would
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

Always Ask Books Days
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

About All Day Being Brain
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

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

Adult Like Lot Things
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Base Believe Change Economic
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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.

Cause Culture Job Keep
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

Audience Listen Many People
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

Adult BeReal Buy Detail
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I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

Afternoon Couch Day Dog
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I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

Comic ComicStrips Drawing Funny
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The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

About Actually Charity Dad
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
Always Funny Just Never
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

After Dad Maria Me
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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

Also Book Books Doing
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I was a total dork in high school.

Dork High School Total
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A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.

Appear Boy Essentially Guy
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I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.

Disney Freak Live Total
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
Famous Got Hollywood Meet
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

About After Everything ILove
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

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I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.

After Anywhere Drive Lot
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

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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.

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I should be concentrating on writing pages

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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

Book Normally Outline Spend
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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

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I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

Ideas Laugh Made Myself
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

Biggest Characters Essentially Movie
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I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

About Comedies Loser Love
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

Boring Dreamed Dreams Idea
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I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Always Down Just Kids
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Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Women Grow older Cosmetics Men
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A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

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Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

Great drama Souvenir Master
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Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

Like everybody Seem Catching colds
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Beauty Idiots Wise men
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Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
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The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

Dramatic critic Prejudice Believe Human life
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The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

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