#rite

I'm not a natural songwriter. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#natural #songwriter

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#block #characters #could #each #etc

I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#awful #better #bring #cartoonist #could

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#because #day #distraction #dumb #everyday

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. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#block #chapter #complete #enough #i

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#different #many #much #read #soak

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#culture #i #into #job #keep

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

— R. L. Stine

#i #normally #outline #spend #take

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

#ask #books #days #how #i

So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#i #listen #many #people #please