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• I’m obsessed with radio. It’s a good start to Sunday morning.

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• I should be concentrating on writing pages.

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• 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.

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

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• I have a great office.

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• I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don’t drive if there’s snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.

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

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

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

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

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• At least I can write.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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R. L. Stine (44)

Birth:	8th October, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine, and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American writer. Stine, who is called the "Stephen King of children's literature," is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the Fear Street, Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, and The Nightmare Room series. Some of his other works include a Space Cadets trilogy, two Hark gamebooks, and dozens of joke books. R. L. Stine's books have sold over 400 million copies as of 2008.

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