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# Alberto Manguel

(1948)   Writer   Argentina

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Alberto Manguel is a writer from Argentina, best known for *A history of reading*.

## Quick Facts About Alberto Manguel

Born March 13, 1948

Nationality Argentina

Profession Writer

Notable works A history of reading

## About Alberto Manguel

He also works as an anthologist, essayist, novelist and editor. He speaks English, Spanish, German, French fluently and knows Italian and Portuguese well. He left Argentina at twenty in 1968 and has lived in Israel, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, French Polynesia, Canada, the United States and Portugal. Since 2021 he has led an international reading‑studies centre in Lisbon, named Espaço Atlântida in 2023, and he identifies as a Canadian citizen.

## Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship Prix Formentor Alfonso Reyes International Prize Officer of Arts and Letters Prix Médicis essai Officer of the Order of Canada Honorary doctor of the University of Liège Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Show 4 more awards Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa honorary doctor of the University of Poitiers Q137761811 Q140367925

##  Quotes by Alberto Manguel · Page 2

> [One can transform a place by reading in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/one-can-transform-a-place-by-reading-in-it/)

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> [Life happened because I turned the pages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/life-happened-because-i-turned-the-pages/)

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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/)

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> [Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/ultimately-the-number-of-books-always-exceeds-the-space-they-are/)

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> [As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/as-we-read-a-text-in-our-own-language-the-text-itself-becomes-a/)

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> [Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/reading-is-the-occupation-of-the-insomniac-par-excellence/)

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> [Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/not-until-i-came-to-canada-did-i-realize-that-snow-was-a-four-letter/)

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> [Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/reality-deals-in-specifics-under-the-guise-of-generalities-literature/)

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> [Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/existing-libraries-in-their-very-being-seem-to-question-the-authority/)

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> [At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/at-night-here-in-the-library-the-ghosts-have-voices/)

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> [Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/each-book-was-a-world-unto-itself-and-in-it-i-took-refuge/)

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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/)

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> [When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/when-literature-is-discovered-a-revelation-occurs-the-joyful-exultant/)

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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/)

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

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> [Deadlines comes as a surprise…superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/deadlines-comes-as-a-surprise-superb-a-new-genre-in-fact-combining/)

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> [If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/if-the-library-in-the-morning-suggests-an-echo-of-the-severe-and/)

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> [“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/histories-chronologies-and-almanacs-offer-us-the-illusion-of-progress/)

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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/)

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> [I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-remember-as-a-child-the-confusion-of-not-knowing-what-this-place/)

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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/)

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> [In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/in-no-way-am-i-demeaning-writing-or-any-other-form-of-art-because-it/)

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> [Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/books-may-not-change-our-suffering-books-may-not-protect-us-from-evil/)

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

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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/)

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> [I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-don-t-remember-ever-feeling-lonely-in-fact-on-the-rare-occasions/)

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> [“I soon discovered that one doesn't simply read Crime and Punishment or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . One reads a certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-soon-discovered-that-one-doesn-t-simply-read-crime-and-punishment/)

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> [And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/and-sometimes-when-the-stars-are-kind-we-read-with-an-intake-of/)

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> [“Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/old-books-that-we-have-known-but-not-possessed-cross-our-path-and-2/)

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> [“...the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-point-the-essential-quality-of-the-act-of-reading-now-and-always/)

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> [“I think I read in at least two ways. First, by following, breathlessly, the events and the characters without stopping to notice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-think-i-read-in-at-least-two-ways-first-by-following-breathlessly/)

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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/)

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> [“One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. A half-remembered line is echoed by another for reasons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/one-book-calls-to-another-unexpectedly-creating-alliances-across-2/)

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

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> [“Outside theology and fantastic literature, few can doubt that the main features of our universe are its dearth of meaning and lack…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/outside-theology-and-fantastic-literature-few-can-doubt-that-the-main/)

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> [Reading is at the beginning of the social contract.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/reading-is-at-the-beginning-of-the-social-contract/)

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> [If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/if-justice-takes-place-there-may-be-hope-even-in-the-face-of-a/)

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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/)

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> [“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft." A Reader on Reading p. 281”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/to-lend-a-book-is-an-incitement-to-theft-a-reader-on-reading-p-281/)

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> [“Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/libraries-are-not-never-will-be-used-by-everyone/)

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