David Nicholls Quotes

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

I'm always reading books.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

I never stopped reading.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.