One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night:… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I think I read in at least two ways. First, by following, breathlessly, the events and the characters without stopping to notice… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The web will not be the container of our cosmopolitan past, like a book, because it is not a book and will… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Alexandria and its scholars […] never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“We can live in a society founded on the book and yet not read, or we can live in a society where… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. A half-remembered line is echoed by another for reasons… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Then one day, from the window of a car (the destination of that journey is now forgotten), I saw a billboard by the side… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
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… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomoću koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru.” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
