Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me - caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they're widely accepted as an essential part of the children's literary canon.
Jeff Kinney
Related When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many yea... GRACE LIN It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Row... R. L. STINE I love those kids on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.' I remember when they were little the... KELLAN LUTZ If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that wer... LEE UNKRICH Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, 'You look like Marky Mark!' Then... IKE BARINHOLTZ My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for moder... PATRICIA BRIGGS The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see... MAVIS STAPLES I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read the... GAIL Z. MARTIN I don't really have many regrets. I did miss a lot of the events in the days leading up to my si... ALEX MORGAN But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can b... TOM SELLECK It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little. DAVID GRANN When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I w... ERIN MORGENSTERN No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since th... CHERYL TIEGS I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration b... MICHAEL FOREMAN I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday's children as well. It's nice ... BOB KEESHAN When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that we... DAVID S. GOYER You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a pro... TOBIN BELL Chucks are cooler when they're dirty. I actually stepped on somebody's the other day because... AJ LEE Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... MARY BERRY A fan sent me a pair of fluffy winter socks, and I was like, 'Oh, that's cool. I'll wear... ELLA HENDERSON I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked wher... BEVERLY CLEARY Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they re... JAMES A. MOORE Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated o... MING-NA WEN Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children,... GABRIELLE UNION My parents didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up. We were comfortable, but I didn'... KIT HARINGTON Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were ... DARREN SHAN Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that. LIZA MINNELLI My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preac... JOEL OSTEEN Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla... BILL EVANS When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and '... R. L. STINE When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs w... WYNTER GORDON For me, it's been a treat to interact with authors who were publishing when I was a young reader... CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 3... JACK NICHOLSON I've had friends of mine say, like, they're tired of 'gayface,' and I was like, '... KERRY WASHINGTON When my family first found out about my part in 'EastEnders' they were happy for me and very... BEN HARDY I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I lik... JOY FIELDING My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My F... DAVID KRUMHOLTZ Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where n... LEONARD SHLAIN I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was ve... CHANTAL AKERMAN I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondl... JONI MITCHELL My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was s... DOLLY PARTON Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller... JILL DAVIS So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to ... MAXWELL During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but... GOLDIE HAWN I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very -... STEVE BUSCEMI In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick's grandfather's ho... MEGAN MULLALLY You know how they say that old people with Alzheimer's, they kind of go back, and they revert to... RICH MOORE Obesity in children is growing out of control. A big part of this is economic. Fake foods are more a... JILLIAN MICHAELS When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they... MOHSEN MAKHMALBAF When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that L... CALLIE KHOURI It's funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mea... ELENA SATINE I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I a... DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're intere... ELLEN POMPEO And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters.... BRIAN DE PALMA They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so... CHARLOTTE RAE I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of ... PAUL GIAMATTI When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the fi... GARY CHERONE I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what mak... IMELDA STAUNTON My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me. THOMAS MOORE When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like... BYRON HOWARD When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it ab... FEIST They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old p... DANIEL PETRIE Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing ... DAN HARMON The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they... ANNA KENDRICK My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my f... SPIKE MILLIGAN Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.... LANE GARRISON To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be ... CHARLIE PIERCE My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part... EVAN BAYH When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up... MOLLY IVINS I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at t... DON NELSON Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al... DANIEL ESPINOSA When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful... DAVID WALLIAMS I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when yo... BEVERLY SILLS I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls tha... ANGELINA JOLIE Everybody who's anybody has been competitive and over-sensitive and a bit silly. Look at Paul Mc... ROBBIE WILLIAMS When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and yo... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. ... RACHAEL HARRIS You start singing by singing what you hear. So everyone, when they first start singing, they natural... KEHLANI A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were ... TAYLOR SWIFT When I first started on 'Medium,' they didn't like me growing my hair too long. But I wa... SOFIA VASSILIEVA The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, ... HEATHER BROOKE For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren't Mormon say is, 'I grew up with ... BRANDON FLOWERS I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of w... ELLEN DEGENERES Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they ... THOMAS A. EDISON I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ... AMY WALDMAN Over the years, there's been some cases where people did come up who said they were healed, but ... BENNY HINN I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's u... NOEL CLARKE There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when ... ROMA DOWNEY I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... DANIEL ESPINOSA What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk lik... LARRY THE CABLE GUY Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. A... MAISIE WILLIAMS I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt t... DONNA MILLS When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I ... LINA WERTMULLER How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word call... MARCO RUBIO Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was gr... WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out a... PETER HOOK When I first heard rap, I wasn't quick to be critical. I couldn't understand what they were ... CASEY KASEM Once I found these sticker things for your nails - Sally Hansen - those were really fun to do. They&... GIA COPPOLA I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves bec... RAM SHRIRAM
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I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people... JEFF KINNEY 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. ... JEFF KINNEY When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ... JEFF KINNEY Monkeys can't talk, stupid! JEFF KINNEY Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books ar... JEFF KINNEY I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days. JEFF KINNEY I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be... JEFF KINNEY I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." - Greg Heffl... JEFF KINNEY There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out book... JEFF KINNEY I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. 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KATHY KINNEY I didn't even know she went to Quaker Valley. We lost track of each other for all those years. ASHTON KINNEY Macarons and Cocoa to drink
That is the finest of suppers I think!
When I'm grown up and can have
wh... PAULETTE KINNEY Barrett-Jackson has created that same mystique and the same aura that Tiffany has with its blue box.... DAVE KINNEY With SIRTF you'll be able to fill in that population of most distant objects, ANNE KINNEY We are closer to answering the question, 'Are we alone in the universe?' ... We aim to answer that q... ANNE KINNEY Scientists are keenly aware that the telescope is up there not doing anything. There's an enormous d... ANNE KINNEY It's almost impossible. This was a very, very partial print. ... We sent it out, but you would have ... RICHARD KINNEY We have to dance, dance now, dance a lot, dance hard, dance fast, ... I still feel it in my ankles. KATHY KINNEY Meanwhile you look at the same field with the Chandra X-Ray observatory and you see a little beacon ... ANNE KINNEY What it means is that the taste of the people who are buying at Barrett-Jackson are more attuned to ... DAVE KINNEY The graphics are very good, better than a lot of simulators. 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ERNEST KINNEY We didn't know he had another case at the same time when Brad got sick. People don't know that Brad ... ERNEST KINNEY My health is good. I am in great shape. ERNEST KINNEY It kind of shocked all of us. This is unbelievable. ERNEST KINNEY Brad Smith almost died [Wednesday] night. His kidneys were going into failure. His pancreas is not e... ERNEST KINNEY I mean this is the kind of love people dream about, poets write sonnets for, and well it's the kind ... DEANNA KINNEY He needs good news right now the way you and I need oxygen. He has to win it. JASON KINNEY We still have a lot of election left to go. If this was the NBA, this is still the third quarter. An... JASON KINNEY But in the end, it is our hope and expectation that it will be shown that the senator acted appropri... JASON KINNEY I would rather do a project that I've invested so much time to, rather than try to get a part on... 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The entire house is built around that. REV DONALD KINNEY It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't ... JEFF GREENFIELD I do believe we have voter fraud in America. JEFF SESSIONS Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those ... JEFF AMENT I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that. JEFF BECK Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an a... JEFF COHEN That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring. JEFF FOXWORTHY Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital ve... JEFF BEZOS We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is... JEFF BEZOS If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Bein... 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One of the only ways to get out... JEFF BEZOS Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cy... JEFF BRIDGES It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you... JEFF KOONS There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even ... JEFF BRIDGES The beauty of the Internet is that anybody can be a broadcaster now. JEFF ZUCKER We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Han... JEFF DUNHAM Some states like Nebraska have thus far responsibly managed their budgets, even in tough times, and ... JEFF FORTENBERRY Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl... JEFF COHEN The Census Bureau can ask citizens very invasive questions, and if they don't respond, the gover... 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JEFF GREENFIELD Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music indust... JEFF TWEEDY For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by t... JEFF HARDY From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off moun... JEFF GOODELL I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel ... JEFF BUCKLEY I am not going to approve the home-screening format for my film just carte blanche in lieu of a thea... JEFF NICHOLS Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this w... JEFF MACNELLY I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensiti... JEFF SESSIONS I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. JEFF FOXWORTHY Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of the... JEFF ZASLOW But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the... JEFF VANDERMEER I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better th... JEFF LINDSAY You can't do everything but you can do something! JEFF DIXON Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. JEFF GOLDBLUM Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. JEFF VALDEZ Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. JEFF PESIS Two monologues do not make a dialogue. JEFF DALY Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires. JEFF DEWAR We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there alw... JEFF WARNER I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. JEFF FOXWORTHY Do you remember how slowly the days passed when you were a child? An 80-mile car trip seemed endless... JEFF DAVIDSON The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible. JEFF TAYLOR What are the best times to reflect on the course of your life? Whenever you are near water, such as ... JEFF DAVIDSON Ask yourself, If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get m... JEFF DEWAR The constant dilemma of the information age is that our ability to gathera sea of data greatly excee... JEFF DAVIDSON We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. JEFF ARDER When a heart breaks
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-Jeff Arch- screenwriter. JEFF ARCH Two monologues do not make a dialogue. JEFF DALY If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the wor... JEFF FOXWORTHY