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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

#been #books #chased #ghost #i

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#bar mitzvah #first #i #mitzvah #received

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. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#called #comic #comic books #discovered #fabulous

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me. ↗

— Sting

#big enough #creative #emotional #enough #i

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life. ↗

— Sting

#canada #emigrated #found #friend #guitar

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. ↗

— Sting

#death #gives #happily #life #lived

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs. ↗

— Sting

#done #i #introduced #me #meditation

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like. ↗

— Sting

#family #i #like #losers #rejected

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while. ↗

— Sting

#about #been #day #did #five

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them. ↗

— Sting

#body #breathed #case #charts #commodity