Quotes from R. L. Stine

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.

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.

After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

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.

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

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.

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.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

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.

I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.

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.

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.

Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

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

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.

When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.

people don't realize that you have to take care of snow domes and keep them clean and filled with water or they'll dry out

She wanted to run away from herself, away from her face, the hideous face that had stared back at her in the mirror with those frightening unfamiliar eyes.

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.