#in

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#believe #day #every #every day #four

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#been #everything #happened #me #surprising

I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#dreamed #dreams #i #idea #never

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. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#adult #anything #authors #because #before

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. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#back #books #feelings #i #i write

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform. ↗

— Sting

#because #fit #help #i #i always

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter. ↗

— Sting

#date #ending #irrational #matter #millennium

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#beauty #became #could #created #east

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#gymnastics #i #i love #love #swimming

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia. ↗

— James Stockdale

#any #asia #bomb #book #declared