Top 90 R.L. Stine Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “But there is always one last chance – right?”

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2. “Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.”

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3. “The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.”

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4. “Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”

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5. “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.”

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6. “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.”

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7. “Have a haunted haunted Christmas, And a scary New Year’s, too. Have a haunted haunted Christmas, And to one and all say, BOO.”

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8. “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.”

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9. “Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.”

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

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11. “I should be concentrating on writing pages.”

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12. “People say, ‘What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?’ I say, they don’t really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they’re gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.”

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13. “I guess I’m way too kind and generous, and a saint – if you can believe that!”

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14. “I’m a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.”

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15. “Getting invisible is fun, but it could be dangerous.”

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16. “After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.”

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17. “Lucy nodded. “That’s how they escaped from paying for the crimes they had committed.” I.”

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18. “At least I rescued your poor hot dog.”

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19. “A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.”

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20. “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.”

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21. “Tap-tap-tap is better than thump-thumpthump,” Ivy said.”

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22. “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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23. “Dominatio per malum. Power through evil.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.”

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26. “The scarecrow walks at midnight,” he uttered in a low voice.”

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27. “Here I was, locked inside this creepy old library with a monster, and I was worried about getting scolded for being late for dinner!”

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28. “I’ve killed hundreds of teenagers. Hundreds. And I didn’t know why. Why did I enjoy doing it so much? Why? And then I realized – I had a teenager at home!”

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29. “Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.”

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30. “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. You can learn all kinds of ways to say things.”

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31. “There wouldn’t be so many stories about vampires and zombies and other weird creatures if they didn’t really exist.”

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32. “I’m obsessed with radio. It’s a good start to Sunday morning.”

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33. “I feel happy to terrify kids.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “Did you know that Halloween started because long ago people believed that one day a year at the end of the fall harvest, the spirits would return to walk the earth? On that day, people wore masks so the spirits wouldn’t recognize them.”

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

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37. “I’ve had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?”

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

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39. “It’s my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into ’cause you don’t want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.”

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40. “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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41. “At least I can write.”

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42. “Change is good.”

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43. “I became more and more confused. My brain got so fuzzy, I even began to wonder if I’d ever actually been a boy at all. Maybe I’d really been a bee for my entire life, and I’d just dreamed about being a boy.”

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44. “The next day, Greg is so large that he cannot even ride the car to school because he can’t fit in the car. His parents believe this to have been caused by a food allergy and resolve to take him to the doctor later.”

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45. “People don’t always take us seriously,” she continued. “People come to HorrorLand and think it’s all a big joke. People laugh at the signs around the park. They laugh at the rides and attractions.”

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46. “All those decaying zombies eating people and tearing out their guts.” She laughed. “Cool!”

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47. “I’ve made myself laugh from some ideas – but I’ve never scared myself.”

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48. “This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn’t see it, didn’t realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn’t a normal town anymore.”

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49. “I always fixed beef for your father. But he only wanted pie.”

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50. “One thing about me is that I have a really good sense of direction. Mom and Dad always say they don’t need a map when I’m around. I almost always know when I’m heading the wrong way.”

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