Tom Bateman Quotes

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

It's really surreal to be in something under the 'Goosebumps' title.

I wasn't brave enough to read the R. L. Stine book series when I was younger. But my brother read as many of them as he could.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

When I was a kid, I really got into monsters.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

I feel the same magic about 'Angel Falls' that I did with 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mod Squad.'

When I was a small child, I partially learned to read with comics, in particular with 'Scamp,' about the Lady and the Tramp's male child. That was the prime comic that made me fall in love with comics as a kid.

In a book, you can create a world in your imagination that's as intricate as you want. Even something like 'Angels & Demons.' I was reading it, thinking, 'This is incredible! This is so scary!'

I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

I have always loved reading a little creep-factor and a lot of suspense.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

My neighborhood was like 'The Wonder Years.' We played until 10 o'clock at night. We used to tell scary stories. I was the one scaring them. We used to play football by this place called the Myer's House. It was a big, spooky house with the gables; we'd hang out there and scare each other.