A biography for R. L. Stinehasn’t been written yet.
“After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.”
“I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!”
“I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.”
“I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!”
“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.”
“Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.”
“I have a great office.”
“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.”
“Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.”
“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.”
“I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.”
“Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.”
“Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.”
“I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.”
“People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.”
“A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.”
“I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.”
“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.”
“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 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.”