140 Quotes by Rebecca Stead

I think we must all feel that there are people out there who know things about our young selves, you know, our early, early lives, that no one else can ever know.

I think that my first book - I was trying to write the kind of book I would have loved as a kid. So it's sort of, like, a book inspired by my childhood reading and the passion that I felt about reading when I was a kid.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.

I think of 'Liar & Spy' as completely different and actually not at all like a 'When You Reach Me'-type story. I feel like 'Liar & Spy' has a much quieter, more emotional revelation.

I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. I've had some lovely homemade earrings and, recently, a wall hanging made in the style of Georges Seurat.

My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.

Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.