Daniel Pinkwater

“The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Listen to yourself. The answers are within you.”

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

“There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.”

“Never mind what you've heard. The dream is not to be SOMEBODY. The dream is to be YOURSELF.”

“Real content is not just facts and figures but the impression of the personality of the writer.”

“The only thing a true dog lover wants is a dog who is a dog.”

“I have known some bad people. I have known some good people. I have known a lot of people in between. And they have all had one thing in common: they were all individuals.”

“Good dogs are not that common.”

“Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.”

“I write what I would have wanted to read as a kid. I'm a reluctant reader. I hate to read. I'm not a book lover.”

“To be of a nation is a fact, a condition of history, or politics. To be a people is a work of the imagination.”

“Most of what is true is not what is said.”

“You are allowed to be fat. You are allowed to be not-pretty. You are allowed to be yourself.”

“I had taken a course in writing, which was a big mistake. The only thing you can do is to write, and to write, and to write.”