My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for. Jeff Kinney More Quotes by Jeff Kinney More Quotes From Jeff Kinney hot pink looks cute on only janet which is MEEEEEEE!!! Jeff Kinney hotcutelooks If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all. Jeff Kinney realexpectationspeople He got the crib, so for the first few months of my life I had to sleep in the top dresser drawer, which I'm pretty sure isn't even legal. Jeff Kinney monthssleepfirsts Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want. Jeff Kinney swimmingnapsdark So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system. Jeff Kinney blamewantway I didn't really know what to expect from detention but when I waked into the room, the first thought I had was, I don't belong in here with these future criminals. Jeff Kinney criminalsroomsfirsts Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist? Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you! Jeff Kinney i-canthinking It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place. Jeff Kinney wantstuffwriting 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 animalbookthinking Luckily for me, my father had impeccable taste. No contemporary collector was he. His treasure trove of comics included gems such as 'Little Lulu,' 'Frontline Combat' and 'Classics Illustrated.' But the works that stood head and shoulders above the rest were Carl Barks's 'Donald Duck' and 'Uncle Scrooge' comics from the 1940s through the 1960s. Jeff Kinney unclerestmefather I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days. Jeff Kinney personneverschool-daysschool My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night. Jeff Kinney daymyselfmework I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up. Jeff Kinney phonefamilybrotherpeople I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times. Jeff Kinney lookyouchildhoodbrother Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on. Jeff Kinney lovedparentsreadingchildren I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arrested development, but I feel like it's easy to slip back into those shoes, and I feel like if we were all magically transported back to our middle school years, we'd all act like we did in middle school. Jeff Kinney feelshoeseasyschool With the recent addition of a full soundtrack and the players map, millions of Poptropicans around the globe are now fully immersed in a multimedia gaming experience when they embark on our high quality adventures. Jeff Kinney highgamingqualityexperience 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and 'traditional' writing, and that's how 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' was born. Jeff Kinney toughstylebookworld Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult. Jeff Kinney adulthandfeelmoral I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book. Jeff Kinney mechildhoodchildrenthinking
