R. L. Stine Quotes

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.

A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.

I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.