To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books aren't amoral, they… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I'm not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for their book to be… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I'm keeping my day job, because Poptropica is something that really energizes me. I'd love to create a TV series or write… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I'm very excited to see the wonderful 2-D characters in Poptropica come to life in the form of 3-D toys. When I… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
When kids get stuck on one of our quests, we now have an app for that. It is so cool to know… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it was a meet only for the worst… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
We're extremely excited to see more than 500,000 friends around the globe be added within the first 12 hours of launching Friends… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of movies where a kid my age finds out he's got magical powers and then gets invited to… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Then one day, this kid named Darren Walsh touched the Cheese with his finger, and that's what started this thing called the… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books aren't amoral, they are not… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“There was this book Dad used to read to me every night called "The Giving Tree." It was a really good book, but the… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
The only reason I get out of bed at all on weekends is because eventually I can't stand the taste of my own breath… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator,… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I don't know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it's hard for me to get interested in other people's vacations. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
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