I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved. — Daniel Pennac Books Copy Share Image
You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream. — Daniel Pennac Books Copy Share Image
Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime. — Daniel Pennac Increase Copy Share Image
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 Consumers Copy Share Image
The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it. — Daniel Pennac Lying Copy Share Image
“La vita non è un romanzo, lo so... lo so. Ma solo lo spirito del romanzo può renderla vivibile.” — Daniel Pennac Amor Copy Share Image
“Quando vado in giro per Belleville, a qualunque ora della giornata, ho sempre la sensazione di essermi perso in uno degli album… — Daniel Pennac Amor Copy Share Image
“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 Choice Copy Share Image
“A child has no great wish to perfect himself in the use of an instrument of torture, but make it a means… — Daniel Pennac Children Copy Share Image
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 Book Copy Share Image
“¨3. El derecho a no terminar un libro ¿El libro se nos cae de las manos? Que se caiga. La gran novela… — Daniel Pennac Amor Copy Share Image
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 Book Copy Share Image
“Since the dawn of education, the student considered as normal has been the student who puts up the least resistance to teaching,… — Daniel Pennac Education Copy Share Image
A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself. — Daniel Pennac Book Copy Share Image
“Abbioccarmi in treno, al cinema, a teatro o mentre leggo è una voluttà cui non rinuncio mai.” — Daniel Pennac Amor Copy Share Image
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. — Daniel Pennac Grief Copy Share Image
All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others. — Daniel Pennac Education Copy Share Image
By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living. — Daniel Pennac Books Copy Share Image
When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback! — Daniel Pennac Bigs Copy Share Image
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 Country Copy Share Image
I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions. — Daniel Pennac Companion Copy Share Image
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 Artistic Copy Share Image
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 Children Copy Share Image
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 Bill of rights Copy Share Image
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 Absurd Copy Share Image
