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Top 15 Mac Barnett Quotes (2024 Update)

Mac Barnett Quote: “Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.”

1. “Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.”

2. “Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.”

5. “Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “I may have been swallowed, said the duck, but I have no intention of being eaten.”

6. “I may have been swallowed, said the duck, but I have no intention of being eaten.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.”

7. “Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.”

8. “Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no!”

9. “No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no!”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.”

10. “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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Mac Barnett Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “I’d much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.”

12. “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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Mac Barnett Quote: “He smelled like an animal. It was the first time Miles had touched a cow.”

13. “He smelled like an animal. It was the first time Miles had touched a cow.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “Kevin Cornell and I have worked together a bunch.”

16. “Kevin Cornell and I have worked together a bunch.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “Summertime is here again. School principals are free. The birds are singing in the trees And so are the school principals. Not in the trees, but on the ground. School principals cannot fly.”

17. “Summertime is here again. School principals are free. The birds are singing in the trees And so are the school principals. Not in the trees, but on the ground. School principals cannot fly.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “There is a considerable difference between believing something is rubbish and believing it should not exist,” said the Queen. “Remember that.”

18. “There is a considerable difference between believing something is rubbish and believing it should not exist,” said the Queen. “Remember that.”

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Mac Barnett Quote: “Leave it to Niles Sparks to prank his pranking partner in the middle of a prank.”

19. “Leave it to Niles Sparks to prank his pranking partner in the middle of a prank.”

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