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Daniel Pennac Quotes

b. 1944 France

Daniel Pennac (born December 1, 1944) is a French writer mostly renown for his books for young readers.

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If young people don’t like reading, let’s not blame television or the modern world or school. Or rather, blame them all, but only after asking what we have done to that ideal reader since the days when we played at being both storyteller and book.

Schools everywhere have always confined themselves to making students learn techniques and write essays, while proscribing treading for pleasure. It seems to be established in perpetuity, in every part of the world, that enjoyment has no part to play in the curriculum, and that knowledge can only be the fruit of suffering.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Pennac (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.