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If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.
— Jeff Kinney
Tags: direction, reading, fun, age

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Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books aren't amoral, they are not infused with morals or a message, either, and kids like that.
— Jeff Kinney
Tags: books, morals, being, like
I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids, I might actually have spelt things out a bit more, and that would probably have killed the appeal.
— Jeff Kinney
Tags: writing, more, never, me
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.
— Jeff Kinney
Tags: bathroom, team, hide, myself
Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.
— Jeff Kinney
Tags: adult, out, moral, feel
I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.
— Jeff Kinney
Tags: who, person, never, school
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