We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's like secret adult's business. It's the secret we never, ever tell our children. No adult ever read a… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
“At least in a book I am away from my body for a while. But I want to do things, not just read about… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future!… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to by blood… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing because there… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
“I think my body knew before my mind did. Or maybe I just refused to listen to what I knew.” — Jackie French Copy Share Image
“Maybe everyone is crazy up in these mountains. Maybe the air up here makes you absurd, the scent of flowers and rock and snow.… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed how every tree is different here? All twisted by the wind and snow, but if that was all, they should have… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
