Daniel Pennac
Daniel Pennac
Daniel Pennacis a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his essay Chagrin d'école...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
CountryFrance
reading loving-life lifetime
Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.
lying reading world
The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.
dream falling-in-love fall
You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream ...
reading doors different
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 worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about... The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.
making-time our-time
By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.
rights pages bills
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 anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes
important pockets enough
When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!
fun doubt masters
I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.
teacher forget just-one
All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
finishing novel
I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.
teacher school thinking
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 question of need.
reading sorrow hours
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.
children teenager mean
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 have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...> Time to read is always time stolen. <...> Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.”- p.125
children book fall
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. That must be why we have so much trouble returning borrowed books. It's not exactly theft (of course not, we're not thieves, what are you implying?); it's simply a slippage in ownership or, better still, a transfer of substance. That which belonged to someone else becomes mine when I look at it. And if I like what I read, naturally I'll have difficulty giving it back.