About 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".
I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.
Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.
I am a very shy, introverted guy.
You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.
I know I can be very standoffish.
My message has always been about resilience.
My fans are buying the DNA of Dave.
I buy thousands of books a year.
I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.
There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.
I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.
'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.
I'm always looking for a story of survival.
You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.
What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.
Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.
Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.
And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.
My mom obviously had a problem.
I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.
I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.
