Famous Alberto Manguel Quotes
“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.”
Source: The Library at Night
Alberto Manguel Quotes about books
Source: A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
Alberto Manguel Quotes about reading
Forbidden Reading, p. 281.
Source: A History of Reading (1996)
The Author As Reader, p. 259.
A History of Reading (1996)
The Silent Readers, p. 46.
A History of Reading (1996)
Learning To Read, p. 71.
A History of Reading (1996)
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Alberto Manguel Quotes
“Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.”
Source: The Library at Night
“At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.”
Source: The Library at Night
Source: A History of Reading
Source: The Library at Night
The Book Fool, p. 296.
A History of Reading (1996)
The Last Page, p. 19
A History of Reading (1996)
Reading The Future, p. 211.
A History of Reading (1996)
The Missing First Page, p. 86.
A History of Reading (1996)
The Last Page, p. 7.
A History of Reading (1996)
The Last Page, p. 6.
A History of Reading (1996)
“The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.”
The Symbolic Reader, p. 214.
A History of Reading (1996)
Private Reading, p. 152.
A History of Reading (1996)
“One can transform a place by reading in it.”
Private Reading, p. 152.
A History of Reading (1996)
Metaphors of Reading, p. 168.
A History of Reading (1996)
The Translator As Reader, p. 273-274.
A History of Reading (1996)
Stealing Books, p. 238.
A History of Reading (1996)
Being Read To, p. 120.
A History of Reading (1996)
“Possessing these books has become all important to me, because I have become jealous of the past.”
Stealing Books, p. 238.
A History of Reading (1996)
“From its very start, reading is writings apotheosis.”
Beginnings, p. 179.
A History of Reading (1996)
The Shape of The Book, p. 125.
A History of Reading (1996)
“A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.”
The Last Page, p. 7.
A History of Reading (1996)
“Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.”
Ordainers of The Universe, p. 198.
A History of Reading (1996)
“A book brings its own history to the reader.”
The Last Page, p. 16.
A History of Reading (1996)
The Silent Readers, p. 43.
A History of Reading (1996)
“I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.”
The Last Page, p. 11.
A History of Reading (1996)
“As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.”
The Translator As Reader, p. 276.
A History of Reading (1996)
“reading is at the beginning of the social contract”
The Last Page, p. 7.
A History of Reading (1996)
The Shape of The Book, p. 135.
A History of Reading (1996)
A History of Reading (1996)
Source: The Library at Night, p. 123
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