Daniel Pennac Quotes

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments.

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

The man who never reads lives only one.