Rebecca Stead Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.

  Rebecca Stead

  Nice, Book, People

  Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.24, Wendy Lamb Books

• Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five stars, because stars make people - including me -- happy.

  Rebecca Stead

  Stars, Book, People

• I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot of them are books for children but I feel like childhood reading is this magic window and there's something that you sort of carry for the rest of your life when a book has really changed you as a kid, or affected you, or even made you recognize something about yourself.

  Rebecca Stead

  Children, Book, Reading

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.

  Rebecca Stead

  Book, Reading, Kids

  "Can't Quite Say Goodbye...A Conversation with Rebecca Stead". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 1, 2015.

• There's a great temptation to throw things in, as you put it, that you think are neat, or that you have a very clear, specific memory of and think you could do a good job writing about. What I find is that it's like a seed you plant. You can try it, and if it will grow and connect with other ideas in the book, and you can see connections that you can actually realize on the page, then you're allowed to leave it in. But if it just kind of lies there and doesn't really add up to anything or there's no chemistry with everything else going on in the book, then you have to take it out.

  Rebecca Stead

  Memories, Lying, Book

  Source: www.hbook.com

• I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

  Rebecca Stead

  Book, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

• When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.

  Rebecca Stead

  Book

  Source: www.hbook.com

• I never write with any kind of message, and I don't think that this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger' has a message in the capital M form of the word but I do hope it makes people ask themselves questions about what they think.

  Rebecca Stead

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• I love a book that makes me ask questions about what I think or how I see the world or how I feel, so I hope that 'Goodbye, Stranger' is that kind of book for some people.

  Rebecca Stead

  Book, Thinking, People

  "Can't Quite Say Goodbye...A Conversation with Rebecca Stead". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 1, 2015.

• The truth is that I think that most people, and most people in this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger', are really doing their best but they're stumbling all over the place and they're hurting each other deliberately and by accident.

  Rebecca Stead

  Hurt, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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