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.
From R. L. Stine
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
I feel happy to terrify kids.
When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.
A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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.
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
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.
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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