Quotes by : Daniel Pennac

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, everything’s....

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