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 close…

- R. L. Stine

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

- R. L. Stine

I feel happy to terrify kids.

- R. L. Stine

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

- R. L. Stine

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

- R. L. Stine

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 costum…

- R. L. Stine

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

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

- R. L. Stine

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