Comme un roman
Daniel Pennac
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
“What we need to understand is that books weren't written so that young people could write essays about them, but so that they could read them if they really wanted to. Knowledge, academic track record, career, and social life are one thing. Our intimacy and cultural awareness as readers are quite another.”
“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, but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place, but that no one can replace either.”
“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.”
“The children became their reciprocal angels: readers.”
“Reassured, we left their bedroom without understanding-- or wanting to admit-- that what a child learns first isn't the act but the gestures that accompany the act. And although it may also help them learn, this ostentatious show of reading is primarily intended to reassure them and please us.”
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