Daniel Pennac

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

— Daniel Pennac

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

— Daniel Pennac

“O preço do Amor é o resgate da intimidade”

— Daniel Pennac

“Não se esforça a curiosidade, desperta-se”

— Daniel Pennac

“Amar é doarmos as nossas preferências àqueles que preferimos”

— Daniel Pennac

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

— Daniel Pennac

“Réduits a nous-mêmes, nous nous réduisons à rien.”

— Daniel Pennac

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

— Daniel Pennac

“Abbioccarmi in treno, al cinema, a teatro o mentre leggo è una voluttà cui non rinuncio mai.”

— Daniel Pennac

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

— Daniel Pennac

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

— Daniel Pennac

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

— Daniel Pennac

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

— Daniel Pennac

“La vita non è un romanzo, lo so... lo so. Ma solo lo spirito del romanzo può renderla vivibile.”

— Daniel Pennac

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

— Daniel Pennac

“A child has no great wish to perfect himself in the use of an instrument of torture, but make it a means…

— Daniel Pennac

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a…

— Daniel Pennac

“Forced to think you end up coming to a conclusion.Forced to come to a conclusion you make a decision.And once you made…

— Daniel Pennac

“¨3. El derecho a no terminar un libro ¿El libro se nos cae de las manos? Que se caiga. La gran novela…

— Daniel Pennac

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there's no need…

— Daniel Pennac

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a…

— Daniel Pennac

If you're wondering how you'll find time, it means you don't really want to read. Because nobody's ever got time. Children certainly…

— Daniel Pennac

Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if…

— Daniel Pennac

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

— Daniel Pennac

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish…

— Daniel Pennac

“Since the dawn of education, the student considered as normal has been the student who puts up the least resistance to teaching,…

— Daniel Pennac

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

— Daniel Pennac

“Quando vado in giro per Belleville, a qualunque ora della giornata, ho sempre la sensazione di essermi perso in uno degli album…

— Daniel Pennac

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

— Daniel Pennac

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

— Daniel Pennac