R. L. Stine famous quotes

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
-- R. L. Stine

#Inspiring #Book #Writing

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
-- R. L. Stine

#Scary #Feelings #Natural

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.
-- R. L. Stine

#Children #Fun #Book

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?
-- R. L. Stine

#Home #Writing #Sheltered Lives

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.
-- R. L. Stine

#Halloween #Kids #Home

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

#Snow #Summertime #Miles

I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
-- R. L. Stine

#Morning #Sunday #Radio

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!
-- R. L. Stine

#Book #Kids #Hair

I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
-- R. L. Stine

#Dream #Ideas #Stories

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
-- R. L. Stine

#Typewriters #Special #Bars

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!
-- R. L. Stine

#Teenager #Home #Enjoy

The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.
-- R. L. Stine

#Writing #Lessons

I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
-- R. L. Stine

#New York #College #Years

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.
-- R. L. Stine

#Hate #Book #Heart

Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.
-- R. L. Stine

#Book #Mean #Writing

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.
-- R. L. Stine

#Jobs #Kids #Writing

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
-- R. L. Stine

#Morning #Real #Garbage

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.
-- R. L. Stine

#Real #Book #Ideas

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
-- R. L. Stine

#Scary #Wanted

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

#Ideas #Laughing #Scared

I feel happy to terrify kids.
-- R. L. Stine

#Kids #Scary #Feels

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.
-- R. L. Stine

#Block #Writing #Way

I should be concentrating on writing pages.
-- R. L. Stine

#Writing #Pages #Should

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
-- R. L. Stine

#Cheating #Block #Character

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

#Book #Writing #Two

I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
-- R. L. Stine

#Kids #Three #World

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.
-- R. L. Stine

#Believe #School #Doctors

After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
-- R. L. Stine

#New York #Years #Ohio

You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug
-- R. L. Stine

#Fall #Athlete #Jealous

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.
-- R. L. Stine

#Giving #Advice #Helping

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.
-- R. L. Stine

#Writing #Cutting #People

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.
-- R. L. Stine

#Book #Writing #Thinking

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.
-- R. L. Stine

#Book #Believe #Kids

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.
-- R. L. Stine

#Real #Book #Scary

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
-- R. L. Stine

#Book #Years #Six

I have a great office.
-- R. L. Stine

#Office #Great Office

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
-- R. L. Stine

#Believe #Way #Saint

I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.
-- R. L. Stine

#Adults #Tunes #Looney Tunes

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
-- R. L. Stine

#Surprising

At least I can write.
-- R. L. Stine

#Writing

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.
-- R. L. Stine

#Children #Book #Writing

I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
-- R. L. Stine

#Want #World #Freak

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.
-- R. L. Stine

#Dark #Waiting #Age