Book Quote by Jackie French

“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

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

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 by blood…

— Jackie French

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

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 and snow.…

— 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 disguising the…

— Jackie French

“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

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

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