Quotes by : Alberto Manguel

We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine....

As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about....

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my....

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never....

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well....

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world,....

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space....