Daniel Pennac Quotes
If young people don’t like reading, let’s not blame television or the modern world or school. Or rather, blame them all, but only after asking what we have done to that ideal reader since the days when we played at being both storyteller and book.
Daniel Pennac
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.
Jay Asher
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Darby Stanchfield
Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.
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If young people don’t like reading, let’s not blame television or the modern world or school. Or rather, blame them all, but only after asking what we have done to that ideal reader since the days when we played at being both storyteller and book.
Daniel Pennac
