Captain Underpants Quotes

#1. It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.

Dav Pilkey

#2. Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!

Jeff Kinney

#3. I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.

Dav Pilkey

#4. People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'

Jon Scieszka

#5. To be intelligent, be complex; to be wise, be simple.

Debasish Mridha

#6. A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Dixie Lee Ray

#7. The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Greg Boyle

#8. There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

Brian Koslow

#9. You may have even commented on the surprising inappropriateness of such a murderous and bloody scene appearing in a children's book. It's fun to feel offended, isn't it?

Dav Pilkey

#10. Butterflies,
the embodiment of myth,
the articulation of the past,
first for the elite,
then for the rest of us.

Brian D'Ambrosio