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.
Daniel Pinkwater

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

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?
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 of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!
Daniel Pinkwater

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