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All Quotes by author - R. L. Stine
" After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York. "
Years
New
Love
" A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning. "
Morning
New
Garbage
" At least I can write. "
Least
I Can
Write
" 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. "
Believe
Day
Every Day
" Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising. "
Happened
Me
Everything
" I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary. "
Scary
Planned
Never
" I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.' "
Would
Tunes
Things
" I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles. "
After
Drive
Lot
" I feel happy to terrify kids. "
Happy
Terrify
Kids
" 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. "
Think
Feel
Good
" 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. "
Start
Chapter
Enough
" 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. "
Worry
Want
Up
" 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. "
Three
My Own
Travel
" I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that! "
Too
Kind
Way
" 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. "
Personality
Writer
Way
" I have a great office. "
Great
Office
" I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now. "
Books
Doing
Now
" 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. "
Theme
Real
Go
" I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World. "
Disney
World
Freak
" I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning. "
Morning
Good
Sunday
" 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. "
Every Day
Night
Three
" 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. "
Everyone
Better
Bring
" 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. "
Real
Day
Dumb
" I should be concentrating on writing pages. "
Pages
Concentrating
Should
" 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. "
Old
Weird
Writing
" 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. "
Children
People
She
" 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. "
Culture
You
Man
" 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! "
Saturday
Get
Hair
" I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college. "
Right
College
Lived
" I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself. "
Never
Myself
Scared
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