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Reader Quotes by Alberto Manguel
- 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 scholar, the poor sighted reader,…
- If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of…
- A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in…
- It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now…
- As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts…
- The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.
- We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the…
- This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because…
- I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
- At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave…
- All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I…
- Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
- Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
- Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its…
- But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.
- If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot…
- Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
- Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
- As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that…
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- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — Wystan Hugh Auden