Daniel Pinkwater
Daniel Pinkwater
Daniel Manus Pinkwateris an American author of children's books and "Young Adult" fiction. Well-known books include Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Fat Men from Space, Borgel, and the picture book The Big Orange Splot. He has also published an adult novel, The Afterlife Diet, and essay collections derived from his talks on National Public Radio. Though many of his most well-known books are considered humorous young-adult fiction, he has written in various genres and for...
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth15 November 1941
Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location.
hoboken neat
Hoboken is a neat place.
dream house looks
My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams.
thinking animal might
Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.
thinking here-i-am people
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.
children book kids
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.
book writing easy
All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?
dog degenerates mama
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.
writing starting
I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.
fun writing writers-block
Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.
writing way
Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
writing trying occupation
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.
running heart numbers
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!
uncanny chickens
Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.