132 Quotes by R.L. Stine

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.

My dream is that Cole gets punished for mouthing off the way he usually does. And his punishment is that he has to feed the chickens for the rest of his life.Everyone has to have a dream — right?

Behind me, Mom busily cleaned out the refrigerator, making room for the groceries Dad was out buying. I was dying to tell her about the scary mask. I wanted to show it to her. Maybe put it on and make her scream.But I knew she’d ask too many questions about where I bought it, and how much it cost, and how much of my allowance I used up to pay for it.All questions I couldn’t answer.

This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn't see it, didn't realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn't a normal town anymore.

His camera at home was just too crummy. That’s why all his pictures came out too dark or too light, and everyone in them had glowing red dots in their eyes. Greg wondered if this camera was any good.

Dad, are we lost?” Luke repeated the question.“Yeah, we’re lost,” Dad replied quietly. “Hopelessly lost.”Clay let out a soft cry and slumped in the seat. He looked a little like a balloon deflating.“Don’t tell him that!” Mom cried sharply.“What should I tell him?” Dad snapped back. “We’re nowhere near Zoo Gardens. We’re nowhere near civilization! We’re in the desert, going nowhere!

People don’t always take us seriously,” she continued. “People come to HorrorLand and think it’s all a big joke. People laugh at the signs around the park. They laugh at the rides and attractions.

So Miss Curdy said I had to be punished.She gave me a choice of punishments. One: I could come into the gym after school every day and inflate all the basketballs — by mouth — until my head exploded.Or two: I could coach the first-grade soccer team.I chose number two.The wrong choice.

Greg was very interested in cameras. He had an inexpensive automatic camera, which took okay snapshots. But he was saving his allowance in hopes of buying a really good camera with a lot of lenses.He loved looking at camera magazines, studying the different models, picking out the ones he wanted to buy.