Jackie French

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

— Jackie French

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in…

— Jackie French

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

— Jackie French

Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to…

— Jackie French

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

— Jackie French

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

— Jackie French

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

— Jackie French

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

— Jackie French

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

— Jackie French

A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at…

— Jackie French

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

— Jackie French

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never…

— Jackie French

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

— Jackie French

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

— Jackie French

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

— Jackie French

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

— Jackie French

“I think of pain differently now. There is pain that hurts, pain that is so bad you can no longer feel it.…

— Jackie French

“We're all bits that the war didn't take, Flinty thought, gazing at the stranger's back. But those left behind had a right…

— Jackie French

“You're a heroin Flinty McAlpine. I reckon you can do anything you set your mind to.”

— Jackie French

“Why is it that you can bear pain, but someone's kindness makes you cry?”

— Jackie French

“I felt I'd used up most of my life's words in the palace, among folk who were never really mine, in a…

— Jackie French

“Dad called this the shadow time. The sun sucks colour from the world, he'd said. He'd taught her to see the softer…

— Jackie French

“With life came loss. The war and the years since had taught her that. There's be sadness in her life to come,…

— Jackie French

“I waved and cried and smiled at the same time like Mum and Mrs Mack, so Sandy and Jeff remember us smiling…

— Jackie French

I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees…

— Jackie French