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" 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
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" 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. "
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" I feel happy to terrify kids. "
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" When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books. "
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" I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself. "
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" I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World. "
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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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" Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special. "
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" After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York. "
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" I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams. "
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" Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles. "
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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 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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" When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it. "
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" 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. "
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" I should be concentrating on writing pages. "
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" Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising. "
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" Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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! "
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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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" 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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" I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now. "
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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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" I have a great office. "
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" I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning. "
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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 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. "
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Day
Dumb
" 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. "
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