Mac Barnett quotes
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“Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.”
-- Mac BarnettSource : Mac Barnett (2009). “The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
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“Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.”
-- Mac BarnettSource : Mac Barnett, Adam Rex (2011). “The Ghostwriter Secret”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
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“Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.”
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“I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.”
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“Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.”
-- Mac BarnettSource : Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
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“Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.”
-- Mac BarnettSource : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
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“It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.”
-- Mac BarnettSource : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
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“I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.”
-- Mac BarnettSource : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
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“I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.”
-- Mac BarnettSource : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
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“I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.”
-- Mac BarnettSource : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
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“I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.”
-- Mac BarnettSource : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
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“We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.”
-- Mac BarnettSource : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
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“Kevin Cornell and I have worked together a bunch.”
-- Mac BarnettSource : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
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“Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.”
-- Mac BarnettSource : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
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