Snoakes

“There is something irrational about reading. Before you read a book, you can know immediately whether or not you are going to like it, just as with people, you can tell just from looking at them whether or not you’ll be their friend. You smell it, you sniff it, you wonder whether it’s worth spending time in its company. The pages of a book have an invisible alchemy that imprints itself on our brain. A book is a living creature.”
― Jean-Michel Guenassia, The Incorrigible Optimists Club

“No one can tell the difference between tears and raindrops.”
― Jean-Michel Guenassia, The Incorrigible Optimists Club

“Reading and loving a novel written by a bastard is not to absolve him in any way, to share his convictions or connive with him, it’s to recognize his talent, not his morals or his ideals. I have no wish to shake Hergé’s hand, but I love Tintin. And after all, are you yourself above reproof?”
― Jean-Michel Guenassia, The Incorrigible Optimists Club

“I hated wasting my time. The only thing that seemed worthwhile to me was reading.”
― Jean-Michel Guenassia, The Incorrigible Optimists Club