Quotes by Dav Pilkey - Page 1

Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!
Dav Pilkey / Author
Complaining
Grown-Ups
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My books are just pure escapism for kids.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Kids
Book
Escapism
Pure
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Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Book
Boredom
Good Book
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I had a lot of reading problems growing up.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Growing
Growing Up
Reading
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Encourage kids to be creative without worrying about being perfect.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Kids
Perfect
Worry
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I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Book
Laughing
Thinking
Favorites
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Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Illustration
Stories
Writing
Illustrations
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My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Boards
Nonfiction
Reading
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A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Humor
Book
Feelings
Hot
Missing
Potty
Banana
Feeling
Suppose
Split
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Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when I got to third or fourth grade - don't associate reading with fun.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Book
Fun
Reading
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Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Success
Happy Life
Mean
School
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Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Great Job
Late
Plus
Silly
Stories
All Day
Author
Draw
Make Up
Pictures
Taking
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These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'
Dav Pilkey / Author
Inspire
Perfectionism
Reason
Feel
Agenda
Mistakes
Books
Own
Comics
Create
Occur
Secretly
Stifled
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My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Notebook
Children
Freshman
Silly
University
Writing
Good Me Children
Writer
English
Drew
Good Writer
Pictures
Professor
State University
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I think if you can show a kid that reading can actually be fun, it can make you laugh, inspire imagination - that can make a huge difference, that can help a child who's struggling with reading to really look at it differently.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Children
Fun
Struggle
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Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Kids
Running
Black And White
Garbage
Lazy
Lazy People
Smarter
Fools
Grown-Ups
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It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Humor
Book
Decided
Forever
Hate
Irresistible
Reading
Sophisticated
Captain
Comprehend
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I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Teacher
Class
Clown
Comic
Drawing
My Own
Trouble
Books
Began
Constantly
Captain
Class Clown
Comic Books
Created
Getting
Grade
Hall
Hallway
Making
Punish
Second
Sent
Soon
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My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in a novel format. So I wrote incredibly short chapters and tried to fill each page with more pictures than words. I wanted to create a book that kids who don't like to read would want to read.
Dav Pilkey / Author
Kids
Adventure
Book
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