Alberto Manguel: Quotes about books (page 2)

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“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.
A History of Reading (1996)

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.”

Alberto Manguel

Metaphors of Reading, p. 168.
A History of Reading (1996)

Books , World , Way

“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.
A History of Reading (1996)

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.
A History of Reading (1996)

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.
A History of Reading (1996)

Books , Past

“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.
A History of Reading (1996)

Books , Way , Fashion , Change

“A book brings its own history to the reader.”

Alberto Manguel

The Last Page, p. 16.
A History of Reading (1996)

Books , History

“In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.”

Alberto Manguel

The Shape of The Book, p. 135.
A History of Reading (1996)

Books , Fashion

“It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed. Those books may no longer be available for consultation, they may exist only in the vague memory of a reader or in the vaguer-still memory of tradition and legend, but they have acquired a kind of immortality.”

Alberto Manguel

A History of Reading (1996)
Source: The Library at Night, p. 123

Books , Memory