Book Quote by Alberto Manguel

“Alexandria and its scholars […] never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an ever-shifting present…

— Alberto Manguel

“Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the…

— Camilo Gomes Jr

A book is the only immortality.

— Rufus Choate

But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is…

— Stephen Spender

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

— Iris Chang

What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.

— Sven Birkerts

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are more interesting…

— Michel Faber

“Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than…

— Mark Edmundson

“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being.…

— David L. Ulin

People perish. Books are immortal.

— Robert Harris

“Each reader is but one chapter in the life of a book, and unless he passes his knowledge on to others, it is as…

— Alberto Manguel

“Reading is nothing less than divinity. An experience that is both visceral and ethereal. An open book in your hand, a mind and heart…

— J.G. Starbuck