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

The children became their reciprocal angels: readers.

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.

When you buy a jacket, it's important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

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

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

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

Forced to think you end up coming to a conclusion.Forced to come to a conclusion you make a decision.And once you made the decision you really acts.

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.

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

He was an echo chamber for all books, the physical incarnation of words, the book made human.

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

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

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

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

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

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

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.