Jeff Kinney Quotes

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

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

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

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

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.