R. L. Stine Quotes
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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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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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
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I have a great office.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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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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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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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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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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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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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 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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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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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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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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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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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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I should be concentrating on writing pages.
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I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.
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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.