"My all-time favorite letter of all these years ... a kid said 'I've read 40 of your books and they're all boring.'" —R.L. Stine #ACESVCon23
"The ones I like the most are the ones where kids can't trust their own mind. That's the scariest thing." —R.L. Stine #ACESVCon23
"Get rid of the cell phones. You can't have a mystery with a cell phone ... They ruin everything." —R.L. Stine #ACESVCon23
"I see these 40-year-olds and I know what I am to them. I'm nostalgia. How would you like to be nostalgia?" —R.L. Stine #ACESVCon23
"I'm not talented enough to change my style ... My audience has changed ... Now I get 7-year-olds and 10-year-olds and 15-year-olds ... I get to scare a lot of generations now." —R.L. Stine #ACESVCon23
R.L. Stine is an outliner. No pantsing here, folks! "Everyone hates to outline, right? ... But I can't work without it." #ACESVCon23
"I'm married to my editor. It's a nightmare ... She's a very tough editor ... [Plots] are maybe the only thing we ever fought about ... Once she handed a manuscript back to me and it had two words: Psychotic rambling." —R.L. Stine #ACESVCon23
"I've been doing this for 112 years, so I kinda know what I can get away with." —R.L. Stine #ACESVCon23
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Thanks to watching @juliewillson.bsky.social prep videos for #ACESVCon23, I had preportioned snacks (nuts and popcorn and fruit) ready to go. So helpful. I hope you got recharged. It was a big day for you presenting!