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R. L. Stine

" I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself. "

Ideas

related quotes

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

Inspirational

" 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. "

Children

" 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 closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age. "

Dark

" The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it. "

Writing

" I feel happy to terrify kids. "

Kids

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

Giving

" 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. "

Book

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

Believe

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

Surprising

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

Scary

" Well, I hate it when authors come into a school and they say to kids, 'Write from your heart, only write what you know, and write from your heart.' I hate that because it's useless. I've written over 300 books - not one was written from my heart. Not one. They were all written for an audience, they were all written to entertain a certain audience. "

Hate

" 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. "

Writing

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