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“The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.”

Alberto Manguel

Endpaper Pages, p. 309.
A History of Reading (1996)

“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: A History of Reading

“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: A History of Reading

“I wanted to live among books.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: A History of Reading

“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: A History of Reading

“The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“Life happened because I turned the pages.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: A History of Reading

“But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night