Jeff Kinney Quotes

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

To write, you need to find what you love.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful array of gorgeous human peculiarity revolves before your eyes, and you still can't quite believe it's all yours for the taking.

When I write, I imagine places more than people.

It is easy to be inspired by history when you're living in a part of it and allow that to seep into your writing: having said that, a minimalist room with no distractions is often better; the most exciting visions should already be in your head.

I've just always been very interested in story above all.

I'm constantly surprised by human nature and humanity. And I think that's why I love what I do: because I love to story-tell and bring new characters to life.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves.