30 quotes found
Writer · French · 1944
French writer (born 1944)
“Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.”
“I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.”
“When you buy a jacket, its important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!”
“When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!”
“If reading isn't about communication, it is, in the end, about sharing. But a deferred and fiercely selective kind of sharing.”
“Lei stesso", Malaussne, "lei stesso"! L'"identit", cos' questo snobismo? Crede che siamo "noi stessi" intorno a questo tavolo? Essere "se stesso", signore, significa essere il cavallo giusto, al mo...”
“Our children start out as good readers and will remain so if the adults around them nourish their enthusiasm instead of trying to prove themselves. If we stimulate their desire to learn before maki...”
“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.”
“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 o...”
“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 reco...”
“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...”
“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 th...”
“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.”
“But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everythings handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture,...”
“Reader's Bill of Rights1. 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 r...”
“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 ...”
“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 takes time to distill what we've read before we ...”
“Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.”
“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.”
“Lei stesso", Malaussène, "lei stesso"! L'"identità", cos'è questo snobismo? Crede che siamo "noi stessi" intorno a questo tavolo? Essere "se stesso", signore, significa essere il cavallo giusto, al...”
