Dav Pilkey Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

Ted Cruz

#3. Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

Dav Pilkey

#4. Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Camille Pissarro

#5. 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

#6. Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.

James Madison

#7. 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

#8. Ah, there was her door. Reaching into her bra, she pulled out her room key. Tate chuckled behind her.
"That's been in your bra?"
She flashed him a grin. "Yeah, I have lipstick in there too, and my bank cards.

Toni Aleo

#9. two wrongs dont make a right

Dav Pilkey

#10. He is not coming back. And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain,worse than it had been when she thought he was dead. More all consuming. Ravaging her insides.

Lora Leigh

#11. I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

Dav Pilkey

#12. Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.

Dav Pilkey

#13. Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

Dav Pilkey

#14. 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

#15. I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.

Coleman Barks

#16. It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

Joseph Conrad

#17. I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

Damien Chazelle

#18. These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'

Dav Pilkey

#19. 12 Who is the man who fears the LORD? Him c will he instruct in the way that he should choose.

Anonymous

#20. I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.

Dav Pilkey

#21. Encourage kids to be creative without worrying about being perfect.

Dav Pilkey

#22. Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

Dav Pilkey

#23. A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.

Dav Pilkey

#24. And now dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed:
Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye,
And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.

Mary Howitt

#25. Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white ... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.

Dav Pilkey

#26. Have you read your UNDERPANTS today?

Dav Pilkey

#27. Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!

Bill Walsh

#28. George and Harold were usually responsible kids. Whenever anything bad happened, George and Harold were usually responsible.

Dav Pilkey

#29. Lie #3

I don't care what they think of me.

Robin Talley

#30. For everything that reminds me of who I am, there's always something reminding me of who I'm not.

Veera Hiranandani

#31. Yes you have returned
And things are as they were
But this you cannot hide,
A part of you has died.

Joyce Rachelle

#32. My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.

Dav Pilkey

#33. I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

Dav Pilkey

#34. Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

Dav Pilkey

#35. My books are just pure escapism for kids.

Dav Pilkey

#36. Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

Van Morrison