Top 83 R.L. Stine Quotes
#1. 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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#2. A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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#3. 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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#4. I've killed hundreds of teenagers. Hundreds. And I didn't know why. Why did I enjoy doing it so much? Why? And then I realized - I had a teenager at home!
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#5. Greg had been nearly out the door, on his way next door to Shari's birthday party, when the phone rang.
"Hi, Greg. Why aren't you on your way to my party?" Shari had asked when he'd run to pick up the receiver.
"Because I'm on the phone with you," Greg had replied dryly.
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#6. I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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#7. 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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#9. There wouldn't be so many stories about vampires and zombies and other weird creatures if they didn't really exist.
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#10. Squatting over it, I pulled it open. My clothes were neatly folded at the top. Robb hadn't stolen anything.
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#11. Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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#12. 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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#13. The next day, Greg is so large that he cannot even ride the car to school because he can't fit in the car. His parents believe this to have been caused by a food allergy and resolve to take him to the doctor later.
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#15. You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
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#16. 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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#17. You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face. -(Bird) Doug
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#18. I should be concentrating on writing pages.
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#19. Good dog,' she said, stoking his head. 'Good sweet dog.' That was one of the great things about dogs. They always loved you no matter what was going on.
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#20. Have a haunted haunted Christmas, And a scary New Year's, too. Have a haunted haunted Christmas, And to one and all say, BOO.
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#22. Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.
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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
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#26. What was the truth about the camera? he wondered.
Does the camera show the future?
Or does it actually cause bad things to happen?
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#27. Grandpa Mo choked out. They ... they ... they are hungry. Very hungry.
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#29. Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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#30. I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
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#31. I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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#32. 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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#33. I'm so tired of being lonely,she thought. In so tired of never going out, of never being with a boy,off never having a boy care about me.
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#34. Did you know that Halloween started because long ago people believed that one day a year at the end of the fall harvest, the spirits would return to walk the earth? On that day, people wore masks so the spirits wouldn't recognize them.
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#35. All those decaying zombies eating people and tearing out their guts." She laughed. "Cool!
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#36. Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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#38. You won't be going home tonight - or ever," Trevor whispered. "You've seen too much.
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#39. they should invent a car that stays cool inside when it is parked
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#40. They had me on my back.
And then they all swarmed at once.
Bony hands pawed at me. The grunts and groans rang in my ears.
I screamed as their sharp fingers punctured my chest - and ripped it open.
I kept screaming as they lowered their ugly heads and began to feed.
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#41. I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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#42. He didn't like being the sensible one of the group. Everyone always made fun of the sensible one. He'd rather be the wild and crazy one. But, somehow, he always ended up sensible.
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#43. After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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#44. I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
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#45. Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.
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#46. 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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#47. 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.
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#48. Despite the loud booing from Shari and Greg, Bird managed to punch the ball past the shortstop for a single.
"Lucky hit!" Greg yelled, cupping his hands into a megaphone.
Bird pretended not to hear him.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. Yes, that's the laptop I use to write all the Goosebumps books. I know it looks strange. That's because someone's lap is still attached. Don't touch it. I think it's contagious.
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something ... My theory is a children's book ... can be just for fun.
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#55. My name is Abe Marcus. Ned and I are identical twins. We look exactly alike. Even Ma and Pa can't tell us apart. But we don't act alike. I am the serious twin. Maybe it's because I am two minutes older.
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#56. Tap-tap-tap is better than thump-thumpthump, Ivy said.
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#57. There are all kinds of worlds in the real world,"she said softly."Most people don't know that.
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#58. 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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#59. I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.
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#60. Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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#61. 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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#62. Zeke and I struggled to get to the dressing room so we could get changed. But we were mobbed by people who wanted to congratulate us and tell us how talented and terrific we were.
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#63. I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?
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#64. I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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#65. She wasn't wearing a mask! The monstrous green face was her face. She wasn't wearing a monster costume. None of the Horrors were wearing costumes, I realized. I stepped back, raising my hands in horror as if trying to shield myself.
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#66. 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.
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#67. 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.
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#68. She realized she'd never felt this happy.even at her old school, she had been an outsider, always the lonely girl,the one who stayed at home watching tv on Saturday nights while her friends went to parties and out on dates.
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#69. When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.
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#70. 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.
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#71. 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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#72. I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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#73. The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.
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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.
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#78. People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.
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#79. Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.
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#80. sari is the most competitive person i know. she has to be the first and best at everything. if everyone is catching the flu, she has to be the first one to catch it!
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#81. I gabbed Ivy's arm. "Look. Ivy. Something just moved - by that tombstone."
We both stared into the gray light.
"Oh, noooo," I moaned.
I watched, trembling in horror as someone climbed out of a grave.
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#82. But there is always one last chance - right?
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#83. The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!!
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