Dav Pilkey Quotes

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious intricacies, to be what you were, what you are, what you will be, and what everyone else is or was or will be, too.

I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

I prefer writing originals.

You become a great writer by writing.

I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.