R. L. Stine Quotes
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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.
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People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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Well, I hate it when authors come into a school and they say to kids, 'Write from your heart, only write what you know, and write from your heart.' I hate that because it's useless. I've written over 300 books - not one was written from my heart. Not one. They were all written for an audience, they were all written to entertain a certain audience.
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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.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.
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I've killed hundreds of teenagers. Hundreds. And I didn't know why. Why did I enjoy doing it so much? Why? And then I realized - I had a teenager at home!
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I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.
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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.
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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I feel happy to terrify kids.
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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
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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.
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I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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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.
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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.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I should be concentrating on writing pages.
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