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Vote: | All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show? |
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Vote: | Borgel is not a silly story. You must be a silly questioner. |
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Vote: | Fat hatred has become a little more vicious as other groups have excused themselves from being the butts of these cruelties. I think people really couldn't care less about the issue; they just see you as a defenseless person. It's not about fat; it can't be about fat. Fat is too trivial for it to be about. |
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Vote: | First of all, fat people are, in fact, funny. In the same way that there's something delightful about elephants standing on their hind legs and doing tricks for the circus. There's a kind of a joyousness to big, ponderous creatures. |
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Vote: | Hoboken is a neat place. |
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Vote: | I come from a highly dysfunctional family. Fortunately, I had an elder half-brother and half-sister, whom my mother had at one time parked in an orphanage for a few years because that was convenient. They acquired human values there, and they raised me. But my actual biological parents were straight out of the Pleistocene. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how. |
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Vote: | I was always a chunky child. Early photos of me show not a particularly rotund little boy, but a substantial one. Just a hell of a sweet-looking kid. |
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Vote: | I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing. |
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Vote: | I wrote a fat sex scene that begins in the hot dog stand and winds up in the bathtub in her apartment, where she uses this secret blend of spices to flavor the bathwater. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location. |
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Vote: | Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | The fat men come back in Slaves of Spiegel, to be reprinted next year in an anthology from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. |
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Vote: | The hatred of fat people, I think, is more modern. It's manufactured. It's a manifestation of the shabbier and cheaper side of culture, which is to say, advertising and skinny models on the beach hawking cigarettes and beer. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think. |
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Vote: | Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it. |
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Daniel Pinkwater (b. 1941) is an author (mostly of children's books) and occasional commentator on National Public Radio. His most well-known books include Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avacado of Death, Fat Men from Space,
and the picture book The Big Orange Splot.
Pinkwater tends to write books about (frequently obese) social misfits who find themselves in bizarre situations, such as searching for a floating island populated by human-sized intelligent lizards (Lizard Music), exploring other universes with an obscure relative (Borgel), and discovering that their teeth can function as interstellar radio antennae (Fat Men from Space).
They are often, though not always, set in thinly disguised versions of Chicago or in New Jersey. A recurring character in many of his books set in Chicago is the Chicken Man, an elderly man who carries a performing chicken on his head.
He often varies his name slightly between books (among, e.g., "Daniel Pinkwater", "Daniel M. Pinkwater", "Daniel Manus Pinkwater", "D. Manus Pinkwater", etc.); allegedly, he claims that he does this in order to annoy the children's librarians who have to catalogue his books.
Partial Bibliography
Children's books
* Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars
* Fat Men from Space
* The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
* Borgel
* The Last Guru
* The Magic Moscow
* The Magic Pretzel
* Slaves of Speigel
* Lizard Music
* Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story
* The Snarkout Boys books:
** The Snarkout Boys and the Avacado of Death
** The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror
* The Worms of Kukumlima
* Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario
* Young Adult Novel
* The Education of Robert Nifkin
Picture books
* The Big Orange Splot
* Doodle Flute
* Guys From Space
Adult fiction
* The Afterlife Diet
Non-fiction
* Hoboken Fish and Chicago Whistle: a book of essays, combining essays from two previous books:
** Chicago Days, Hoboken Nights
** Fish Whistle
* Superpuppy: on raising a dog
* Uncle Boris in the Yukon: and Other Shaggy Dog Stories
...(more on Wikipedia)
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