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.
I feel happy to terrify kids. - R. L. Stine
I feel happy to terrify kids.
- R. L. Stine
I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value. - R. L. Stine
I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.
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
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…
I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary. - R. L. Stine
I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising. - R. L. Stine
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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
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.
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
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…
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
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.
Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice. - R. L. Stine
Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.
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