Daniel Pennac Quotes

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

What we need to understand is that books weren't written so that young people could write essays abo...

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the wa...

We human beings build houses because we're alive, but we write books because we're mortal. We live i...

Our children start out as good readers and will remain so if the adults around them nourish their en...

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

Time to read is always time stolen. (Like time to write, for that matter, or time to love).Stolen fr...

If reading isn't about communication, it is, in the end, about sharing. But a deferred and fiercely ...

We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in...

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

Rather than allowing a book's intelligence to speak through our mouths, we replace it with our own i...

Reassured, we left their bedroom without understanding-- or wanting to admit-- that what a child lea...

We see that that ritual of reading every evening at the end of the bed when they were so little--set...

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everythi...

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to ...

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhap...

Reader's Bill of Rights1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finis...

Lei stesso", Malaussène, "lei stesso"! L'"identità", cos'è questo snobismo? Crede che siamo "noi ste...