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" I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams. "
R. L. Stine
Boring
Story
Never
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" 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. "
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Believe
Day
Every Day
" I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that! "
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Too
Kind
Way
" After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York. "
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Years
New
Love
" 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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Work
Say
Week
" I feel happy to terrify kids. "
R. L. Stine
Happy
Terrify
Kids
" 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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After
Drive
Lot
" 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. "
R. L. Stine
Three
My Own
Travel
" I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. "
R. L. Stine
Real Life
Ghost
Life
" I should be concentrating on writing pages. "
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Pages
Concentrating
Should
" Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown. "
R. L. Stine
Clown
Making
Trouble
" 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. "
R. L. Stine
Think
Feel
Good
" Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book. "
R. L. Stine
Take
Book
Spend
" 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. "
R. L. Stine
Kid
Fabulous
Thought
" 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! "
R. L. Stine
Saturday
Get
Hair
" 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. "
R. L. Stine
Children
People
She
" 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. "
R. L. Stine
Theme
Real
Go
" 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
Everyone
Better
Bring
" Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that. "
R. L. Stine
You
Writing
Down
" Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles. "
R. L. Stine
Read
Book
Books
" Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising. "
R. L. Stine
Happened
Me
Everything
" A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning. "
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Morning
New
Garbage
" 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. "
R. L. Stine
Every Day
Night
Three
" 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. "
R. L. Stine
Worry
Want
Up
" 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. "
R. L. Stine
Culture
You
Man
" I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now. "
R. L. Stine
Books
Doing
Now
" 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. "
R. L. Stine
Start
Chapter
Enough
" I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college. "
R. L. Stine
Right
College
Lived
" 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. "
R. L. Stine
Personality
Writer
Way
" Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age. "
R. L. Stine
Dark
Age
Waiting