Jeff Kinney Quotes

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 soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

Jeff Kinney

Quotes to Explore

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

Ted Turner
- Life
- Me
- Adversity
Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.

Adam Mansbach
- Kids
- Control
- Best
If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

Ted Shackelford
- Life
- Work
- Day
For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

Ildar Abdrazakov
- Time
- Me
- First
People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.

Warren Spector
- People
- Time
- Kids
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

Oscar Wilde
- Heart
- Head
- Worked