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When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.

I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.