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
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The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.
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If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.
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I`m basically one of the best people I know.
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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.
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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.
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Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says people need to shave twice a day.
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But the thing I’m finding out is some people don’t really appreciate it when you’r trying to be helpful.
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.
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.
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I draft on the computer. I have a really giant screen that attaches to my laptop, and then I have a humongous digital drawing tablet called a Cintiq. It sits at all different angles, and it's so big that it would take two people to move it.
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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 the bathroom of every kid in America.
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I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.
learned role
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 should have been all along, and I'll stay in this role as long as I'm a writer.
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'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.