William Joyce Quotes & Sayings

“I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.”

“If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.”

“So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.”

“I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.”

“But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.”

“And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.”

“You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.”

“I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.”

“I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.”

“Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.”