61 Quotes by R. L. Stine

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

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.