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title: "34 Reader Quotes By Alberto Manguel"
description: "34 Reader quotes by Alberto Manguel. Plus more from Alberto Manguel and more Reader sayings from other authors."
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> [A book brings its own history to the reader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/a-book-brings-its-own-history-to-the-reader/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [Every text assumes a reader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/every-text-assumes-a-reader/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/but-a-reader-s-ambition-knows-no-bounds/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-readers-who-commited-suicide-after-reading-werther-were-not-ideal/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-association-of-books-with-their-readers-is-unlike-any-other/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/readers-censors-know-are-defined-by-the-books-they-read/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/readers-are-bullied-in-schoolyards-and-in-locker-rooms-as-much-as-in/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-world-that-is-a-book-is-devoured-bya-reader-who-is-a-letter-in/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/every-reader-exists-to-ensure-for-a-certain-book-a-modest-immortality/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/socrates-affirmed-that-only-that-which-the-reader-already-knows-can/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/most-readers-then-and-now-have-at-some-time-experienced-the/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/this-morning-i-looked-at-the-books-on-my-shelves-and-thought-that/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/entering-a-library-i-am-always-stuck-by-the-way-in-which-a-certain/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/a-writer-stops-writing-the-moment-he-or-she-puts-the-last-full-stop/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/all-these-are-readers-and-their-gestures-their-craft-the-pleasure-the/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/it-used-to-be-that-readers-were-relegated-because-they-considered/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/through-ignorance-through-faith-through-intelligence-through-trickery/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/as-readers-we-are-seldom-interested-in-the-fine-sentiments-of-a/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/we-can-imagine-the-books-we-d-like-to-read-even-if-they-have-not-yet/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/at-one-magical-instant-in-your-early-childhood-the-page-of-a-book/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/something-about-the-possession-of-a-book-an-object-that-can-contain/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/if-the-book-is-second-hand-i-leave-all-its-markings-intact-the-spoor/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/it-is-in-the-translation-that-the-innocence-lost-after-the-first/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/however-readers-make-a-book-theirs-the-end-is-that-book-and-reader/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/we-can-roam-the-bloated-stacks-of-the-library-of-alexandria-where-all/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [“Each reader is but one chapter in the life of a book, and unless he passes his knowledge on to others, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/each-reader-is-but-one-chapter-in-the-life-of-a-book-and-unless-he/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/every-reader-has-found-charms-by-which-to-secure-possession-of-a-page/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-quickly-learned-that-reading-is-cumulative-and-proceeds-by/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [“We can live in a society founded on the book and yet not read, or we can live in a society where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/we-can-live-in-a-society-founded-on-the-book-and-yet-not-read-or-we/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/to-say-that-an-author-is-a-reader-or-a-reader-an-author-to-see-a-book/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/slothful-feeble-pretentious-pedantic-elitist-these-are-some-of-the/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/if-every-library-is-in-some-sense-a-reflection-of-its-readers-it-is/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/from-fire-water-the-passage-of-time-neglectful-readers-and-the-hand/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/as-readers-we-have-gone-from-learning-a-precious-craft-whose-secret/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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## Other authors on Reader

## More by Alberto Manguel

> [Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/most-readers-then-and-now-have-at-some-time-experienced-the/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/libraries-whether-my-own-or-shared-with-a-greater-reading-public-have/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/at-different-times-and-in-different-places-i-have-come-to-expect/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-have-no-feelings-of-guilt-regarding-the-books-i-have-not-read-and/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [“Then one day, from the window of a car (the destination of that journey is now forgotten), I saw a billboard by the side…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/then-one-day-from-the-window-of-a-car-the-destination-of-that-journey/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-shelves-of-books-we-haven-t-written-like-those-of-books-we-haven/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-have-no-feeling-of-guilt-regarding-the-books-i-have-not-read-and/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/old-books-that-we-have-known-but-not-possessed-cross-our-path-and/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/ordered-by-subject-by-importance-ordered-according-to-whether-the/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [The starting point is a question.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-starting-point-is-a-question/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [“Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomoću koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/ljubav-je-imbecilna-izvesnost-pomo-u-koje-na-a-fantazija-stvara/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-know-that-something-dies-when-i-give-up-my-books-and-that-my-memory/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/something-about-the-possession-of-a-book-an-object-that-can-contain/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/maybe-this-is-why-we-read-and-why-in-moments-of-darkness-we-return-to/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

> [As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/as-centuries-of-dictators-have-known-an-illiterate-crowd-is-the/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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