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I had a few ducks as a kid.

I was considered an ugly duckling.

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.'

From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.

I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very 'Glee.'

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.