Dav Pilkey Quotations

My books are just pure escapism for kids.

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.

Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

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.

I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

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.

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.

The show was really funny and charming, ... And I loved how it seemed like it was just thrown together at the last minute.