Jeff Kinney

Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist? Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!

— Jeff Kinney

You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End.

— Jeff Kinney

hey guys i would like you to try this book you will love it!

— Jeff Kinney

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then…

— Jeff Kinney

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

I've learned to accept that I'm a children's writer, even if it's not what I set out to become. It's what I…

— Jeff Kinney

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the…

— Jeff Kinney

With the recent addition of a full soundtrack and the players map, millions of Poptropicans around the globe are now fully immersed…

— Jeff Kinney

I don't know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it's hard for me to get interested in other…

— Jeff Kinney

I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of…

— Jeff Kinney

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put…

— Jeff Kinney

I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time…

— Jeff Kinney

Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable…

— Jeff Kinney

On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just…

— Jeff Kinney

“Rodrick’s punishment was that he had to answer a bunch of questions Mom wrote out for him. Did owning this magazine make…

— Jeff Kinney

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

“must’ve stepped in dog poop when I walked in the grass. And I knew EXACTLY where it happened, too. SQUISH I took…

— Jeff Kinney

When I first learned about Abrams and saw the types of books they were making, I knew I wanted my books to…

— Jeff Kinney

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

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of…

— Jeff Kinney

Holly is the fourth-prettiest girl in the class, but the top 3 all have boyfriends. So a lot of guys like me…

— Jeff Kinney

Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of…

— Jeff Kinney

I got to give mom credit for how she handled it.She didn't try to pry and get all the details. All she…

— Jeff Kinney

I feel lucky I didn't become that newspaper cartoonist I wanted to be because in the U.S. so many newspapers have suffered…

— Jeff Kinney

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so…

— Jeff Kinney

Monkeys can't talk, stupid!

— Jeff Kinney

I'm basically one of the best people I know.

— Jeff Kinney

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are...

— Jeff Kinney

“Be yourself and people will like you.”

— Jeff Kinney

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

— Jeff Kinney

I was an average kid who had his wimpy moments.

— Jeff Kinney

To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

— Jeff Kinney

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

— Jeff Kinney

So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.

— Jeff Kinney

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

— Jeff Kinney

But the thing I’m finding out is some people don’t really appreciate it when you’r trying to be helpful.

— Jeff Kinney

I'm not even the most influential person in my own house.

— Jeff Kinney

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

— Jeff Kinney

I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry…

— Jeff Kinney

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