Daniel Pinkwater famous quotes

03-28-2025

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Dog #People #Saws
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Reading #Writing #College
I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Art #Believe #World
Hoboken is a neat place.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Hoboken #Neat
I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Writing #Starting
Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Fun #Writing #Having Fun
Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Writing #Way
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Writing #Trying #Occupation
Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Running #Heart #Numbers
Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Children #Book #Writing
All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Book #Writing #Easy
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Children #Book #Kids
Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Thinking #People #Guy
Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Animal #Thinking #Might
My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Dream #House #Looks
Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Math #Trust Me #Formulas
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Dog #Degenerates #Mama
Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Uncanny #Chickens
My parents believe in the principle of â€˜sink or swim,â€™ or â€˜what doesnâ€™t kill you makes you stronger â€• or it kills you.â€ From â€œThe Education of Robert Nifkin
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Believe #Parent #Swim
It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Destiny #Thinking #Done

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