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• All my books were easy to write – doesn’t it show?

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• 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.

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

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• Hoboken is a neat place.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

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• Mr. Breton didn’t know about location, location, location.

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• 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!

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• Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.

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

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Daniel Pinkwater (12)

Birth:	15th November, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Commentator, Illustrator

About

Daniel Manus Pinkwater was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He is 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. His artistic style varies from work to work, with some books illustrated in computer drawings, others in woodcuts and others in Magic Marker. He is also a longtime commentator on National Public Radio.

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