Latest Rebecca Stead Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

• 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

• 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

• I think the idea that in a riddle there are two answers or two doors and that you have to pick the right one is almost sort of delightful to kids who are making so many choices every day and who often don't know for a while if they've made the right one. It's not as if you make a choice and then *ding* you have some sense of "oh, this is perfect and I'm happy" - it's never that simple.

  Rebecca Stead

  Kids, Simple, Thinking

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

• 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.

• I remember in junior high school, which is what we called it, suddenly I was looking at myself, almost through other people's eyes, and thought: how does the world see me? So that was one of the things I was really interested in, when I was writing Goodbye Stranger.

  Rebecca Stead

  Goodbye, School, Eye

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

• 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 think that's why I wanted to write about seventh grade. I'd say seventh grade is a time when kids are really exploring a lot and becoming aware of the world around them in a deeper way. And they just have sort of have a wider appreciation of what's happening around them. They are seeing themselves from the outside more than they had before.

  Rebecca Stead

  Appreciation, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• I feel like there are stages in many, many people's childhoods when you don't have one good friend. It can happen a lot in sixth and seventh grade because that's when things are changing so quickly. It's like a desperate dash for some kind of acceptable identity, and it can get ugly.

  Rebecca Stead

  Good Friend, Childhood, Identity

  Source: www.hbook.com

• I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.

  Rebecca Stead

  Children, Thinking, Remember

  Source: www.hbook.com

• I like to talk about weirdness. We all have strange thoughts and ideas, and when you really trust someone you can express them. And they can express them to you, and that's one of the joys of life.

  Rebecca Stead

  Joy, Strange, Weirdness

  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

• For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.

  Rebecca Stead

  Real, Feelings, Important

  Source: www.hbook.com

• When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.

  Rebecca Stead

  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

• 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