Writer Quotes by Jackie French

9 Writer quotes by Jackie French

These nine concise lines from Jackie French capture the energetic, nature‑loving spirit that runs through her books. The set is modest, yet each quote offers a bright glimpse of her engaging storytelling style.

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For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

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I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a…

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A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

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If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

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Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

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“At least in a book I am away from my body for a while. But I want to do things, not just…

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I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them,…

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I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing…

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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…

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I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format…

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If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

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“I think my body knew before my mind did. Or maybe I just refused to listen to what I knew.”

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“Maybe everyone is crazy up in these mountains. Maybe the air up here makes you absurd, the scent of flowers and rock and snow.…

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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…

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“Have you noticed how every tree is different here? All twisted by the wind and snow, but if that was all, they should have…

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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…

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There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that…

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The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

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Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

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