I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I'm very close to my parents. I admire them and respect them enormously. But my childhood unfortunately coincided with the end of their marriage. They are two people who should never, ever have got married. — 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
