Quote

I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and had similar life experiences.

I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know about you, but every movie that I saw when I was a kid, I emulated. I was Haley Mills for an entire summer and had an English accent.

I love accents, I love listening to people talk, I like to try to emulate it as accurately as I can.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.