Jory John quotes

“Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.”
-- Jory John

Source : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

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“Mac [Barnett ] and I have been friends for more than ten years. We met working at an educational nonprofit. And we have been pranking each other the whole time. It's our own version of a prank war. We thought we would channel some of that energy into writing a book.”
-- Jory John

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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“Mac [Barnett]and I both had times when we moved, started new schools, and we know how hard that was, figuring out your identity and who you're going to be at the new school.”
-- Jory John

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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“I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.”
-- Jory John

Source : Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

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“Mac [Barnett] and I prank each other during our presentation. We show baby pictures of each other looking completely ridiculous. I can't believe the frilly shirt that I'm in, and Mac's wearing a sailor suit and playing a toy piano. That's a perfect example of a good prank, where we have three hundred people literally laughing in our faces, three hundred kids at every assembly. And it feels really good. It's really fun.”
-- Jory John

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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“It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.”

“There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”

“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)

“A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity”

Source : Carl F. H. Henry (2003). “The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism”, p.16, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

“Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.”

“I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.”

“Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.”

“In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.”

Source : Kristina Mcmorris (2012). “Bridge of Scarlet Leaves”, p.82, Kensington Publishing Corp.