Jeff Kinney Quotes

I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City Volume 2 #1,' which was about a guy who had two daughters. In both cases, about a year and a half or two years apart. And then after that, I had two daughters, about a year and a half or two years apart.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

I started writing stories as a child.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

When I write, I imagine places more than people.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.