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

- Daniel Pennac

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

- 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 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…

- Daniel Pennac

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

- Daniel Pennac

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

- 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 but we read becaus…

- Daniel Pennac

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

- 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 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read an…

- Daniel Pennac