Books Quote by Alberto Manguel

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alberto Manguel

The starting point is a question.

— Alberto Manguel

“Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomoću koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru.”

— 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.

— Alberto Manguel