Daniel Pennac Quotes

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

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

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

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

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

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

We see that that ritual of reading every evening at the end of the bed when they were so little--set time, set gestures-- was like a prayer.

Time to read is always time stolen. (Like time to write, for that matter, or time to love).Stolen from what?From the tyranny of living.

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