R.L. Stine > Quotes

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
― R.L. Stine

“Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.”
― R.L. Stine

“I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?”
― R. L. Stine

“Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.”
― R.L. Stine, The Haunted Mask II

“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.”
― R.L. Stine, Say Cheese and Die!

“There are all kinds of worlds in the real world,"she said softly."Most people don't know that.”
― R L Stine Shadow Girl

“You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug”
― R.L. Stine, Say Cheese and Die!

“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.”
― R.L. Stine, Welcome to Dead House

“The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!!”
― R.L. Stine, The Snowman

“He's is a real dummy”
― R.L. Stine, Night of the Living Dummy II

“The kid moved, and Judith dropped her lunch tray on the table and took her seat. "Would you like to swap lunches?" she asked me. "Yours looks so much better than mine."
I was holding a mashed-up tunafish sand-wich. "This?" I asked, waving it. Half the tunafish fell out of the soggy bread.
"Yum!" Judith exclaimed. "Want my pizza, Sam? Here. Take it." She slid her tray in front of me. "You bring great lunches. I wish my mum packed lunches like yours."
I could see Cory staring at me , his eyes wide with disbelief.
I really couldn't believe it, either. All Judith wanted from the world was to be exactly like me!”
― R.L. Stine, Be Careful What You Wish For...

“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.”
― R.L. Stine, Zombie Town

“I'm so tired of being lonely,she thought. In so tired of never going out, of never being with a boy,off never having a boy care about me.”
― r.l. stine, First Date

“She realized she'd never felt this happy.even at her old school, she had been an outsider, always the lonely girl,the one who stayed at home watching tv on Saturday nights while her friends went to parties and out on dates.”
― R.L. Stine, First Date

“Zeke and I struggled to get to the dressing room so we could get changed. But we were mobbed by people who wanted to congratulate us and tell us how talented and terrific we were.”
― R.L. Stine, Phantom of the Auditorium

“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.”
― R.L. Stine

“WELCOME. YOU ARE MOST WANTED.
Come in. I'm R.L. Stine. Welcome to the Goosebumps office.
Glad you made it through the barbed wire fence. Don't worry. Those cuts will stop bleeding in an hour or two.
Why do we have a barbed wire fence? To keep the Abominable Snowman from escaping. I'm surprised you didn't see him. He's creeping up right behind you. Hurry. Step inside and shut the door. You don't want to find out why everyone calls him Abominable.
Hey, don't be scared of Eddie over there. Eddie woke up dead tired one morning. Guess what? He actually was dead. Yes, Eddie is a zombie. But he doesn't like that word. He likes to be called "life-challenged."
He's not much trouble. He only needs to eat human flesh once a day. Don't be nervous. He just finished his breakfast.
Whom did he have for breakfast? I'm not sure. But I haven't seen my brother all morning...
Eddie - what did I tell you about eating the family?
Oh, well. Let me ask you a question before Eddie has to have his next meal. What do you think is the Most Wanted holiday?”
― R.L. Stine, Zombie Halloween

“Good dog,' she said, stoking his head. 'Good sweet dog.' That was one of the great things about dogs. They always loved you no matter what was going on.”
― R.L. Stine, Bad Dreams

“breath freezes”
― R.L. Stine, Vampire Breath

“There wouldn't be so many stories about vampires and zombies and other weird creatures if they didn't really exist.”
― R.L. Stine, Zombie Halloween

“Dad, are we lost?” Luke repeated the question.

“Yeah, we’re lost,” Dad replied quietly. “Hopelessly lost.”

Clay let out a soft cry and slumped in the seat. He looked a little like a balloon deflating.

“Don’t tell him that!” Mom cried sharply.

“What should I tell him?” Dad snapped back. “We’re nowhere near Zoo Gardens. We’re nowhere near civilization! We’re in the desert, going nowhere!”
― R.L. Stine, One Day at Horrorland

“That’s one of my problems. I never get angry quick enough. I never speak up when I am really mad. And then I feel silly bringing it up later.”
― R.L. Stine, The Prom Queen

“chicken salad.”
― R.L. Stine, Deep Trouble

“But there is always one last chance—right?”
― R.L. Stine, Creature Teacher

“He didn’t like being the sensible one of the group. Everyone always made fun of the sensible one. He’d rather be the wild and crazy one. But, somehow, he always ended up sensible.”
― R.L. Stine, Say Cheese and Die!

“Dominatio per malum. Power through evil.”
― R.L. Stine, The Sign of Fear

“Cameras can only record what they see.”
― R.L. Stine, Say Cheese and Die!

“I can see ghosts.”
― R.L. Stine, The 12 Screams of Christmas

“Getting invisible is fun, but it could be dangerous.”
― R.L. Stine, Let's Get Invisible!

“Greg was very interested in cameras. He had an inexpensive automatic camera, which took okay snapshots. But he was saving his allowance in hopes of buying a really good camera with a lot of lenses.
He loved looking at camera magazines, studying the different models, picking out the ones he wanted to buy.”
― R.L. Stine, Say Cheese and Die!