81 Quotes by Daniel Pennac

If reading isn’t about communication, it is, in the end, about sharing. But a deferred and fiercely selective kind of sharing.

Rather than allowing a book’s intelligence to speak through our mouths, we replace it with our own intelligence as we talk about it. Rather than acting as emissary for the book, we become guardians of the temple, boasting of its wonders in the very words that slam shut it’s doors: Reading matters! Reading matters!

Il trattato di Versailles ha prodotto dei tedeschi vessati che hanno prodotto degli ebrei erranti che fabbricano dei palestinesi erranti che fabbricano delle vedove erranti incinte dei vendicatori di domani...

La lettura, atto di comunicazione? Ecco un’altra simpatica frottola da commentatori! Quel che noi leggiamo, lo taciamo.

A child has no great wish to perfect himself in the use of an instrument of torture, but make it a means to his pleasure, and soon you will not be able to keep him from it.

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.

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.

Amare vuol dire, in ultima analisi, far dono delle nostre preferenze a coloro che preferiamo.

Vivir es pasarse el tiempo llenando los dos platos de la balanza.