Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

- R. L. Stine

When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

- R. L. Stine

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.

- R. L. Stine

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.

- R. L. Stine

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

- R. L. Stine

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

- R. L. Stine

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

- R. L. Stine

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

- R. L. Stine

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.

- R. L. Stine

I have a great office.

- R. L. Stine

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.

- R. L. Stine

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.

- R. L. Stine

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

- R. L. Stine

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

- R. L. Stine

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

- R. L. Stine

At least I can write.

- R. L. Stine

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.

- 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.

- R. L. Stine

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.

- R. L. Stine

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

- R. L. Stine