Barbara Park quotes

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately. (Barbara Park)

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

Barbara Park

My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

Barbara Park

There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.

Barbara Park

A little glitter can turn your whole day around.

Barbara Park

I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.

Barbara Park

I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.

Barbara Park

Our nannas are losers.

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I don't evenclowns. Clowns are not normal people.

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And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do. (Barbara Park)

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age.

Barbara Park

Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?

Barbara Park

I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

Barbara Park