Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically part of them. T….

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

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

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a qu….

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read an….

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

L’architecture est art de suggestion..

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

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 becaus….

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

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be ….

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!.

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

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 haven`t, nor hav….

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it ….

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

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

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