Dav Quotes

#1. I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.

Gary Sinise

#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. My books are just pure escapism for kids.

Dav Pilkey

#4. 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

#5. I think it is really a personal journey of purification, rather than whether something external is going to be good or bad. Anything external will always live in that polarity - a combination of good and bad.

Karan Bajaj

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

Dav Pilkey

#7. 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

#8. Is it not the best pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all?

Victor Hugo

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The number one ranked team is playing the number 10 ranked team. That's the reality.

Dav Whatmore

#12. two wrongs dont make a right

Dav Pilkey

#13. The reality is we are still ranked 10th and we are playing a team ranked second in the world who are playing at the top of their game and are at home.

Dav Whatmore

#14. Lucien took the cigar and lit it, in the Spanish fashion, from that of the priest. "He is right," Lucien thought; "there is plenty of time to kill myself.

Honore De Balzac

#15. 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

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

Dav Pilkey

#17. 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

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

Dav Pilkey

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

Dav Pilkey

#20. 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

#21. Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams.

Tim McGraw

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

Dav Pilkey

#23. The levelling process is the victory of abstraction over the individual. The levelling process in modern times, corresponds, in reflection, to fate in antiquity.

Soren Kierkegaard

#24. I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#25. Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

Ernest Hemingway,

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

Dav Pilkey

#27. Anyone can spin a victory, it's a total loss that demands creativity

Josh Stern

#28. Have you read your UNDERPANTS today?

Dav Pilkey

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

Dav Pilkey

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

Dav Pilkey