Quotes by : Daniel Pennac

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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