Dave Pelzer
Dave Pelzer
David James "Dave" Pelzer is an American author, of several autobiographical and self-help books. He is best known for his 1995 memoir of childhood abuse, A Child Called "It"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth29 December 1960
CityDaly City, CA
CountryUnited States of America
knows i-can
I know I can be very standoffish . . .
I'm always looking for a story of survival.
kick
You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.
acclaim became critical war
I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.
The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.
boo kid
'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.
drop jet life middle private somalia tougher
Life can be tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid. You think you got problems? Get in my private jet and we'll go to Somalia or Rwanda. I'll drop you off in the middle of Baghdad.
my-family brady-bunch bunch
I was abused my family was the "brady bunch
schwarzenegger
I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.
cancer hate cells
Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.
two tragedy
Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.
school care foster-care
Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.
years hours
I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day,
book years
I buy thousands of books a year.