R. L. Stine

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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