Today would have been Dr. Seuss ’s 111th birthday . Here are 10 thing he articulate about his life , his work , his inspiration , and bow ties .
1.On how a childless person could write so well for kid : " You make ‘em , I divert ‘em . "
2.On writing books kids in reality desire to read : " I have big pride in takingDick and Janeout of most school libraries . That is my greatest atonement . "
3.On where he gets his ideas : " I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass . There is a niggling town called Gletch , and two thousand foot up above Gletch there is a smaller crossroads name Über Gletch . I go there on the quaternary of August every summertime to get my goof clock fixed . While the zany is in the hospital , I wander around and spill to the people in the streets . They are very strange people , and I get my estimate from them . " ( He was n’t a buff of this interrogation , plain . )
4.On what would pass off if he were invited to a dinner political party with his characters : “ I would n’t show up . "
5.On why he always wear out bow crosstie : " You ca n’t dribble on bow ties . "
6.On the inspiration forHorton think of the ballock : " I was in my New York studio one solar day , adumbrate on gauze-like trace paper , and I had the windowpane out-of-doors . The wind simply read a word picture of an elephant that I ’d draw and put it on top of another bed sheet of paper that had a tree on it . All I had to do was to figure out what the elephant was doing in that Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . "
7.On whether that whoremonger ever worked again : " I ’ve left my window loose for 30 years since that , but nothing ’s happened . "
8.On how long he expectedThe Cat in the Hatto take to drop a line : " I calculate I could pink it off in a week or so . "
9.On how long it really take : " A yr and a one-half . "
10.On nonsense : “ I wish nonsense , it wakes up the Einstein cell . Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in experience ; it ’s a way of looking at life through the incorrect end of a scope . Which is what I do , and that enable you to laugh at life ’s realities . "
See Also : The Time Teddy Roosevelt Traumatized Dr. Seuss
