R. L. Stine

Writer

1943-10-08

Quotes by R. L. Stine

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

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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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• 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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• 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 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 obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

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• Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

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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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• I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

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• 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.

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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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• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

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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 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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• 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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• A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

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