Top 25 Quotes & Sayings by Daniel Pinkwater

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Last updated on April 22, 2025.

Daniel Manus Pinkwater is an American author of children's books and young adult fiction. His books include Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Fat Men from Space, Borgel, and the picture book The Big Orange Splot. He has also written an adult novel, The Afterlife Diet, and essay collections derived from his talks on National Public Radio.

American - Author | Born: November 15, 1941

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I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

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I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

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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.

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Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.

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Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

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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.

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Hoboken is a neat place.

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Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location.

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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.

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All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

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Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

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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!

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Looking back over my life so far I am able to remember specific days that were perfect. These tend to be days, and parts of days, in which nothing in particular happened, except that I was utterly happy.

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My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ? or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

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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!

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I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

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My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams.

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If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

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Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.

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I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

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

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Today is the yesterday you won't remember tomorrow.

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Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.

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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.

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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.

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