Jeff Kinney
Jeff Kinney
American author and cartoonist who created the Diary of a Wimpy Kid children's book series. He is also known for establishing the popular children's website, Poptropica.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth19 February 1971
CityFort Washington, MD
CountryUnited States of America
school one-day bunch
I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." - Greg Heffley,
kids one-day way
Then one day, this kid named Darren Walsh touched the Cheese with his finger, and that's what started this thing called the Cheese Touch. It's basically like the Cooties. If you get the Cheese Touch, you're stuck with it until you pass it on to someone else. The only way to protect yourself from the Cheese Touch is to cross your fingers.
nuggets chicken-nuggets chickens
I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget
needs santa bed
So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.
thinking people way
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 people I know.
stupid monkeys
Monkeys can't talk, stupid!
writing thinking childhood
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
kids next-day one-day
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 the next day you're a dirt sandwich.
choices who-we-are our-choices
Because it's our choices that makes us who we are...
dedication expectations
You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.
nice people matter
... no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.
dead dog fighting george home keeps life lunch remember separate
I remember once I had lunch with George W Bush, his father, and Condoleezza Rice. Then I went home to find my dog and my neighbour's dog fighting over a dead rabbit, and I had to separate them. I like that my home life keeps things real.
book eight informed nostalgic thinking written
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.
cartooning middle pencil sketches until
In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.