Paula Danziger Quotes

• When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

  Paula Danziger

  Father, Book, Use

  47 Copy quote

• Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

  Paula Danziger

  Silly, Writing, People

  16 Copy quote

• We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

  Paula Danziger

  School, Adolescence, Whole Life

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell

  Paula Danziger

  Sometimes, Easier, Shows

  4 Copy quote

• Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

  Paula Danziger

  Mistake, Growth, Important

  4 Copy quote

• I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

  Paula Danziger

  Real, Writing, Long Ago

  4 Copy quote

• Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem.

  Paula Danziger

  Nuts, Red, Pistachios

  Paula Danziger (2006). “The Pistachio Prescription”, p.12, Penguin

  62 Copy quote

• I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell

  Paula Danziger

  Book, Writing, Kids

  4 Copy quote

• I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next

  Paula Danziger

  Circles, People, Want

  20 Copy quote

• It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

  Paula Danziger

  Thinking, Years, Lasts

  Paula Danziger (2006). “There's a Bat in Bunk Five”, p.25, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

  Paula Danziger

  Printed Word, Feels, Printed

  Paula Danziger (2006). “The Cat Ate My Gymsuit”, p.18, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

  Paula Danziger

  Character, Names, Comedian

  8 Copy quote

• My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

  Paula Danziger

  Sarcastic, Mother, Father

  7 Copy quote

• I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single

  Paula Danziger

  Unhappy, Happy Marriage, Married

  4 Copy quote

• In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books

  Paula Danziger

  Coffee, Book, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them

  Paula Danziger

  Book, Lucky, Gone

  7 Copy quote

• At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous

  Paula Danziger

  Should Have, Supportive, Age

  4 Copy quote

• I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues

  Paula Danziger

  Father, Book, Divorce

  8 Copy quote

• I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes

  Paula Danziger

  Kids, Technology, Years

  4 Copy quote

• I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

  Paula Danziger

  Writing, Successful

  4 Copy quote

• I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do

  Paula Danziger

  Book, Kids, Wish

  4 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Tony Ross

Ann M. Martin

Bruce Coville

Judy Blume

Betsy Byars

Patricia Reilly Giff

Cynthia Rylant

Mary Pope Osborne