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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books. ↗

— Payne Stewart

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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now. ↗

— R. L. Stine

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

— R. L. Stine

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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. ↗

— R. L. Stine

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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. ↗

— R. L. Stine

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

— R. L. Stine

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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week. ↗

— R. L. Stine

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