top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books."
Standard
Customized
More
"Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces I've never heard of."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books."
Books
"It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original."
Adventure
"French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic."
Language
"The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture."
Nation
"There is a pride in speaking this language."
Language
"People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant."
People
"All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words."
Humility
"You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules."
Emotional
"They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties."
Communication
"This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5."
Work
bottom of page