Daniel Pennac Quotes

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years. Roald Dahl

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

Reading is a lot like eating for me: If I try to read a book I'm not hungry for, I won't enjoy it, but if I wait until I have a real appetite for something, I'll devour it.

I love everything that Cormac McCarthy has written.

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

I'm the farthest thing from a bibliophile. I purge my collection regularly: If I haven't read a book in a couple of years, I try to give it to someone who will.

I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want to read a particular so-called classic, I go ahead and read it. If I had more time, I would certainly read more, but I'd read the way I always do - that is, I'd read whatever happened to interest me, not necessarily classics.

I don't have time to read much. I'm trying to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' again, for a year now - I keep getting halfway, and then there's a lot of work, and I forget it, and I have to go back to the beginning.

Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.

I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.