Daniel Pinkwater Quotes

#1. 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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#2. All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

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#3. Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of - until you find out you've got it. Once you realize you're ignorant, if you don't do something about it, then you have the right to feel ashamed.

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#4. 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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#5. Incidentally, I don't know how late you were planning to stay, but there is an excellent film this evening The Snake Pit. It's a wonderful comedy. I've seen it several times.

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#6. The difference between that man and me," Alan Mendelsohn said, "is that I am a connoisseur, and he is a fanatic.

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

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

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

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#11. Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.

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#12. Hoboken is a neat place.

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#13. Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so they can think clearly. Eat pudding. And if enough kids read and think. Eat pudding. We will have world peace. Eat pudding. Thank you very much. Eat pudding.

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#17. 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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#18. The standard Chicago hot dog comes with everything you need to sustain life . . . until the bright green pickle relish catches up with you and you die.

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#19. Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.

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

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#21. I have to remind myself that I've always known this: Evolution is not for everybody.

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#22. Of course, an unchanged mind is a little like unchanged underwear. It tends to get unattractive even to the person whose mind or underwear it is.

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

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

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

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

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#29. Today is the yesterday you won't remember tomorrow.

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#30. I changed his name after I saw this old movie at the Snark. It's called Nosferatu, and it's the original Dracula story. It's ten times as scary as the version you see on television. The guy who plays the vampire is really bizarre.

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