He also attended Oxford for graduate school, to earn a D.Phil.An alum of Dartmouth College, he adopted his “Dr.Seuss)–and he sold at least 650 million copies of books, which were translated into more than 20 languages. He not only wrote but illustrated, more than 60 books under the name “Doctor Seuss” (short form, Dr.Children may know him as one of their most familiar children’s authors, but Seuss was also a political cartoonist, and animator. Seuss” was born on March 2, 1904, as Theodor Seuss Geisel. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. It’s very flattering, that laugh, and at the same time it gives pleasure to the audience and accomplishes more than writing very serious things. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it’s fine to exaggerate.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Virtually every page is a cliff-hanger-you’ve got to force them to turn it. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it alive and vital.If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack. It’s more than just a matter of laughing.

Humour has a tremendous place in this sordid world. And it helps develop a sense of humour, which is awfully important in this day and age. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent. For a 60-page book I’ll probably write 500 pages. Two sentences in a children’s book is the equivalent of two chapters in an adult book. But with a kid you can’t get away with that.

You can fool an adult into thinking he’s reading profundities by sprinkling your prose with purple passages.

During World War II, he worked in an animation department of the United States Army, where he wrote Design for Death, which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature. He also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, and as a political cartoonist for PM, a New York City newspaper. His birthday has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative created by the National Education Association. Today is the anniversary of his birthday. He was born 2 March 1904, and died 24 September 1991.

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