R. L. Stine Quotes
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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I can go all over the world with Skype.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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I can barely turn on my computer!
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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I can only focus on doing what's right.
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I'm not a snob. I can make a meal out of anything. I can eat anywhere.
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It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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When you're no longer ill, and everyone's gotten over the fact that you've had cancer, that core of steel doesn't go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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At least I can write.
