"Readers, censors know, are defined by the books…" — Alberto Manguel

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

— Alberto Manguel

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84 Quotes by Alberto Manguel

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Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded…
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of…
And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone…
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the…
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded…
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my…
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's…
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home…
The telling of stories creates the real world.

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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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