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
Jeff Kinney quotes about
nuggets chicken-nuggets chickens
I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget
hay great-writers i-like-him
hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot
advice trying would-be
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.
summer morning school
I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.
weekend taste bed
The only reason I get out of bed at all on weekends is because eventually I can't stand the taste of my own breath any more.
taken animal steps
When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.
vacation people persons
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.
growing-up ice haha
Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
taken ideas born
I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.
billion imagined incredibly inhabited virtual
We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica.
added bring excited extremely globe hours kids launching offering positive reaction safe virtual
We're extremely excited to see more than 500,000 friends around the globe be added within the first 12 hours of launching Friends on Poptropica. The reaction has been extremely positive from fans, and we're proud to bring a completely safe friends offering to kids on our virtual world.
bringing dream funny great hero incredibly mine time worlds
Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!
bathroom hide hiding literally paper swim wrap
When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia.
addition embark experience full fully globe high immersed millions multimedia players recent soundtrack
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.