R. L. Stine quotes

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. (R. L. Stine)
I wrote 87 Goosebumps books. That's a lot of books for a human, isn't it? None of us expected what happened with Goosebumps. We started it in 1992, and by 1994, I was turning out a Goosebumps a month, and it was doing okay for a while. And then it just took off like nothing we'd ever seen. It took off all over the world – not through advertising, hype, or promotions – but just kids telling kids. There's some kind of secret kids network out there. Just kids telling kids about it, and this thing grew everywhere. It was in 28 languages. At one point, after a couple years, we were selling 4 million Goosebumps books a month.
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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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I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.
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The next day, Greg is so large that he cannot even ride the car to school because he can't fit in the car. His parents believe this to have been caused by a food allergy and resolve to take him to the doctor later.
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Yes, I was a funny guy for a long time. When I started out, I just wanted to write humor. I wrote humor for kids. My very first book was called How to be Funny. It was about how to get big laughs at the dinner table and how to get laughs in school. Parents hated this book. I wrote joke books, like A Hundred and One Monster Jokes, and other joke books for years. I did maybe a hundred of them. I had a great time, and I did this humor magazine called Bananas for ten years. It was sort of Mad Magazine, but it was all in color, and it was great. That was all I ever wanted to do. I couldn't believe it. When that ended, I figured I would just coast for the rest of my career. That was it. I'd already done what I wanted to do. I had no idea what was coming up.
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When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous. (R. L. Stine)
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 always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
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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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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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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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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've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I have a great office.
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I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World. (R. L. Stine)
I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.
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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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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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