Jeff Kinney Quotes

Zoo-Wee Mama!

Zoo-Wee Mama!

Jeff Kinney

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my...

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my...

Jeff Kinney

Tags: father, mother, childhood

About Author

Jeffrey Patrick Kinney (born February 19, 1971) is an American author and cartoonist. He is best known for creating, writing and illustrating the children's book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid. He also created the child-oriented website Poptropica.

I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.

Jeff Kinney

I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.

Jeff Kinney

Tags: books, humor

On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I...

Jeff Kinney

On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I...

Jeff Kinney

Tags: hope, day, school

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

Jeff Kinney

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

Jeff Kinney

Tags: hands, kind, kids

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

Jeff Kinney

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

Jeff Kinney

Tags: world, better, think

I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate how far I've come.

Jeff Kinney

I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate how far I've come.

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Tags: true

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing so...

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 many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing so...

Jeff Kinney

Tags: team, myself, childhood

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into...

Jeff Kinney

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into...

Jeff Kinney

Tags: america, writing, book

There was this book Dad used to read to me every night called The Giving Tree. It was a really good book, but the back of it had a picture of the author, this guy named Shel Silverstein.But Shel Silve...

Jeff Kinney

There was this book Dad used to read to me every night called The Giving Tree. It was a really good book, but the back of it had a picture of the author, this guy named Shel Silverstein.But Shel Silve...

Jeff Kinney