Daniel Pinkwater

Looking back over my life so far I am able to remember specific days that were perfect. These tend to be days,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

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

— Daniel Pinkwater

“Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so…

— Daniel Pinkwater

Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.

— Daniel Pinkwater

Hoboken is a neat place.

— Daniel Pinkwater

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

— Daniel Pinkwater

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.…

— Daniel Pinkwater

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

— Daniel Pinkwater

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

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

— Daniel Pinkwater

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

— Daniel Pinkwater

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

— Daniel Pinkwater

Today is the yesterday you won't remember tomorrow.

— Daniel Pinkwater

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To…

— Daniel Pinkwater

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is…

— Daniel Pinkwater

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number…

— Daniel Pinkwater

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

— Daniel Pinkwater

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they…

— Daniel Pinkwater

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

— Daniel Pinkwater

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

— Daniel Pinkwater

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

— Daniel Pinkwater

“The Story of the Rabbit and the Eggplant Once there was a race between a rabbit and an eggplant. Now, the eggplant,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

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

— Daniel Pinkwater

Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to…

— Daniel Pinkwater