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 styles.

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• I’ve made myself laugh from some ideas – but I’ve never scared myself.

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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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• 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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• 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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  Tags in Hard

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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 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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• 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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• I guess I’m way too kind and generous, and a saint – if you can believe that!

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• 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.

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R. L. Stine (44)

Birth:	8th October, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine, and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American writer. Stine, who is called the "Stephen King of children's literature," is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the Fear Street, Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, and The Nightmare Room series. Some of his other works include a Space Cadets trilogy, two Hark gamebooks, and dozens of joke books. R. L. Stine's books have sold over 400 million copies as of 2008.

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