Alberto Manguel: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word "text" unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?”

Alberto Manguel

Reading Shadows, p. 28.
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Reading

“One can transform a place by reading in it.”

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Private Reading, p. 152.
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Reading

“In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.”

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Learning To Read, p. 71.
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Communication , Learning , Reading , Dependency

“The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.”

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The Silent Readers, p. 46.
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Study , Change , Reading

“The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.”

Alberto Manguel

The Author As Reader, p. 259.
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Books , Reading

“Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.”

Alberto Manguel

The Book Fool, p. 296.
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Books

“To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.”

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Metaphors of Reading, p. 168.
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Books , World , Way

“It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.”

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The Translator As Reader, p. 273-274.
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Reading , Wealth

“I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.”

Alberto Manguel

Stealing Books, p. 238.
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Books , Nostalgia , Memory

“Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.”

Alberto Manguel

Being Read To, p. 120.
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Wisdom , Books , Sense , Time

“Possessing these books has become all important to me, because I have become jealous of the past.”

Alberto Manguel

Stealing Books, p. 238.
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Books , Past

“Every text assumes a reader.”

Alberto Manguel

Endpaper Pages, p. 314.
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“From its very start, reading is writings apotheosis.”

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Beginnings, p. 179.
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Reading

“At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.”

Alberto Manguel

The Shape of The Book, p. 125.
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Books , Way , Fashion , Change

“A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.”

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The Last Page, p. 7.
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Reading

“Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.”

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Ordainers of The Universe, p. 198.
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“A book brings its own history to the reader.”

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The Last Page, p. 16.
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Books , History

“Augustine's description of Ambrose's silent reading (including the remark that he never read aloud) is the first definite instance recorded in Western literature.”

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The Silent Readers, p. 43.
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Literature , Reading

“I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.”

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The Last Page, p. 11.
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Reading

“As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.”

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The Translator As Reader, p. 276.
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Reading