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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. "

R. L. Stine

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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" I have a great office. "

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Great

Office

" 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. "

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

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Real

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

" 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. "

" I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself. "

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" I should be concentrating on writing pages. "

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