Jeff Kinney Quotes

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

I never was a child.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.

I'm a big kid, you know?

I never wanted to grow up. It really is a trap.

I'm a big kid.

We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they're worried about. They know it's going to happen at some point.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and a lot of the folks that I work with, childhood is kind of a sacred, special kind of point in time that has a real joy and purity to it. And we sort of long on a daily basis to reach back and kind of grab onto that in some way.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.