R. L. Stine Quotes

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R. L. Stine

Profession : Writer

Birth : October 8, 1943

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

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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

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I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

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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'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.

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

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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 lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

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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 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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I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.

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

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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

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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 should be concentrating on writing pages.

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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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