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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.

Daniel Pinkwater

Women

People

Will

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

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Books

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

Daniel Pinkwater

Writing

Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.

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Animals

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!

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Daniel Pinkwater

Fun

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.

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

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.