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Top 25 Jackie French Quotes (2025 Update)

Jackie French Quote: “If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.”

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

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can’t catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!”

2. “Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can’t catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “I’ve always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.”

3. “I’ve always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “Books aren’t like broccoli. You don’t have to eat it because it’s good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.”

4. “Books aren’t like broccoli. You don’t have to eat it because it’s good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.”

5. “Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “I don’t read like other people do – back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.”

6. “I don’t read like other people do – back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “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! And that is not fair, blast it.”

7. “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! And that is not fair, blast it.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they’re dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.”

8. “There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they’re dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “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 few pages and find out what happens at the end.”

9. “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 few pages and find out what happens at the end.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn’t see her again.”

10. “When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn’t see her again.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “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 fact that they can’t read or have got problems in reading and literacy.”

11. “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 fact that they can’t read or have got problems in reading and literacy.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Jackie French Quote: “Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare’s plays.”

13. “Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare’s plays.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “The song and dance didn’t stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.”

14. “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

Jackie French Quote: “If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.”

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

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “Lady Dance’s music wasn’t a magic charm. I’d misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn’t stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. ‘Rejoice,’ came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. ‘Watch the moon and stars... ’ Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.”

16. “Lady Dance’s music wasn’t a magic charm. I’d misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn’t stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. ‘Rejoice,’ came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. ‘Watch the moon and stars... ’ Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.”

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

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “I knew this was a jewel of a day that would glow bright for my whole life, brighter than any ruby in Macbeth’s crown.”

18. “I knew this was a jewel of a day that would glow bright for my whole life, brighter than any ruby in Macbeth’s crown.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “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 book because it’s good for us. We read because it is fun.”

19. “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 book because it’s good for us. We read because it is fun.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “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 happens next.”

20. “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 happens next.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.”

21. “Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.”

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

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this familiarity. Possibly in another society and another context I might have been a storyteller or who knows what.”

23. “I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this familiarity. Possibly in another society and another context I might have been a storyteller or who knows what.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “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 but we’ve also got families that we acquire. And those too I think are pretty much part of my books.”

24. “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 but we’ve also got families that we acquire. And those too I think are pretty much part of my books.”

— Jackie French

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

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

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “A kingdom needs tending, just like a cheese. Leave a cheese too long and the whey settles to the bottom and sours the whole. Leave a kingdom for too long and others rise to the top and take the whole.”

26. “A kingdom needs tending, just like a cheese. Leave a cheese too long and the whey settles to the bottom and sours the whole. Leave a kingdom for too long and others rise to the top and take the whole.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “I had found I could best be a good daughter by making sure my father never guessed what to forbid.”

27. “I had found I could best be a good daughter by making sure my father never guessed what to forbid.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing because there is a conception that the things that you do quickly are not done well. I think that’s probably one of the reasons I don’t like the idea of prolific.”

28. “I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing because there is a conception that the things that you do quickly are not done well. I think that’s probably one of the reasons I don’t like the idea of prolific.”

— Jackie French

Jackie French Quote: “Teachers had told her she was intelligent. Friends had said so too, often slightly accusatory as if being intelligent had made her too different to be quite comfortable with.”

29. “Teachers had told her she was intelligent. Friends had said so too, often slightly accusatory as if being intelligent had made her too different to be quite comfortable with.”

— Jackie French

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