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My Books Quotes by Alberto Manguel
- Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach…
- I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting…
- I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far…
- My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill…
- In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.
- I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no…
- From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its…
- I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited…
- It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes…
More My Books Quotes
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Auster
- I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I… — John Banville
- I am the worst judge of my books. — John Banville
- In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite… — John Banville
- I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think… — Jo Brand
- I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view. — Dan Brown
- America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping… — Bill Bryson
- Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a… — Bill Bryson
- For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and… — Mitch Albom