Top 100 Stine Quotes
#1. I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.
Dylan Minnette
#2. All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the 'bad guys' were in their works, and I wanted to capture that feeling with 'Don't Look Back.'
Jennifer Armentrout
#3. 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.
R.L. Stine
#4. Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
R.L. Stine
#5. 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.
R.L. Stine
#6. 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
#7. I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.
R.L. Stine
#8. They got special terms that they use when they're pregnant. They don't even say pregnant, got special words they use - I'm expecting. Expecting what? I'm expecting a child, silly. Well, then, you probably got a good shot!
Brad Stine
#9. Comedy, if it's done well, can reflect the mood of a nation. It can be a mirror to who we are, what we believe in, what we are like.
Brad Stine
#10. Because when the Creator of matter, tell you you matter, then you have a purpose and then you have self-esteem.
Brad Stine
#11. 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.
R.L. Stine
#12. 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
#13. If the truth conflicts with my beliefs, I change my beliefs.
Brad Stine
#14. 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.
R.L. Stine
#15. Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.
R.L. Stine
#16. I bring up God alot in my show, know why? Because I miss him.
Brad Stine
#17. I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
R.L. Stine
#18. After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
R.L. Stine
#19. 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.
R.L. Stine
#20. I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not pronouncing words correctly.
Brad Stine
#21. I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
R.L. Stine
#22. 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.
R.L. Stine
#23. Riley Carlson: So I guess I know what you wanted to tell me. I mean, you made it pretty clear that you don't want to go out with an average girl.
Marc Hudson: That's right, I don't. I want to go out with YOU. There's nothing average about you, Riley.
Megan Stine
#24. they should invent a car that stays cool inside when it is parked
R.L. Stine
#25. You won't be going home tonight - or ever," Trevor whispered. "You've seen too much.
R.L. Stine
#27. 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.
R.L. Stine
#28. I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?
R.L. Stine
#29. There were a story scripted on the wall, no words used though, just pictures, memories, from another world. Her happy place.
Stine Saugmann
#30. Talk about sexist - have you ever, ever, heard someone come up to a woman and say 'find your masculine side?' And by the way women, if you find your masculine side - I'm not interested.
Brad Stine
#31. 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
#32. 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.
R.L. Stine
#33. 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.
R.L. Stine
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath without hurting their feelings. Well, I'm bored. Let's go brush our teeth. Or, I've got to make a phone call. Hold this gum in your mouth.
Brad Stine
#37. If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma.
Brad Stine
#38. 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.
R.L. Stine
#39. I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
R.L. Stine
#40. 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.
R.L. Stine
#41. 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.
R.L. Stine
#42. 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
#43. Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
R.L. Stine
#44. I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.
R.L. Stine
#45. 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
#46. There are all kinds of worlds in the real world,"she said softly."Most people don't know that.
R.L. Stine
#47. Tap-tap-tap is better than thump-thumpthump, Ivy said.
R.L. Stine
#48. 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.
R.L. Stine
#49. It's about something that strikes you as funny but I do it with a Christian world view: why we think the way we do based on God's plan. I lift up my God and my country and I resist political correctness.
Brad Stine
#50. Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.
G. Harry Stine
#51. 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.
R.L. Stine
#52. Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?
Brad Stine
#53. 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
R.L. Stine
#54. 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
#55. You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
R.L. Stine
#57. Get out of our schools God, get out of our textbooks God, get out of our government God, go away God, go away God, go away God, Katrina hits, God, where are you?
Brad Stine
#58. Try not to be so happy, mumler Agis, the spice situation in Denmark is a disaster.
Stine Pilgaard
#59. Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It's not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee nation. -from Fireseed One
Catherine Stine
#60. 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.
R.L. Stine
#61. You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.
Brad Stine
#62. Oh, I know: If you're fat, let's not blame you, let's sue McDonalds! Oh, for cryin' out loud, hey, if you smoke, not your fault, it's the tobacco company's fault! Hey, if you shoot somebody, not your fault, let's blame the gun industry!
Brad Stine
#63. 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
#64. Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
R.L. Stine
#65. I should be concentrating on writing pages.
R.L. Stine
#66. Squatting over it, I pulled it open. My clothes were neatly folded at the top. Robb hadn't stolen anything.
R.L. Stine
#67. I don't hate cats ... as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong.
Brad Stine
#68. There wouldn't be so many stories about vampires and zombies and other weird creatures if they didn't really exist.
R.L. Stine
#70. 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
#71. I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
R.L. Stine
#72. 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.
R.L. Stine
#73. 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!
R.L. Stine
#74. 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
#75. A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
R.L. Stine
#76. 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.
R.L. Stine
#77. Chloe Carlson: But don't think I'm all alone without Lennon. Oh, no. I'll be perfectly fine. I still have my friends, Ben and Jerry.
Riley Carlson: They're my friends too!
Megan Stine
#78. 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.
R.L. Stine
#79. People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide your kids' ears from.
Brad Stine
#80. 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.
R.L. Stine
#81. 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.
R.L. Stine
#82. I hope that nothing ever wussifies me to deny my own personal beliefs. Brainwashed wussies have been taught that standing up for yourself and defending your personal point of view makes you a close-minded hate monger. One must also be respectful of dissenting belief while supporting their own.
Brad Stine
#83. I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
R.L. Stine
#84. I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
R.L. Stine
#85. God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.
Brad Stine
#86. Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
R.L. Stine
#88. Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.
G. Harry Stine
#89. All those decaying zombies eating people and tearing out their guts." She laughed. "Cool!
R.L. Stine
#90. Grandpa Mo choked out. They ... they ... they are hungry. Very hungry.
R.L. Stine
#91. What was the truth about the camera? he wondered.
Does the camera show the future?
Or does it actually cause bad things to happen?
R.L. Stine
#92. I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
R.L. Stine
#93. 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
#94. 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.
R.L. Stine
#95. If we all die and there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong ... you'll know forever.
Brad Stine
#96. The truth is supposed to hurt. That's how it lets you know you don't got it.
Brad Stine
#97. Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.
R.L. Stine
#99. Have a haunted haunted Christmas, And a scary New Year's, too. Have a haunted haunted Christmas, And to one and all say, BOO.
R.L. Stine
#100. 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.
R.L. Stine
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