Quotes by : Alberto Manguel

We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly.....

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered....

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.

I wanted to live among books.

No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what....

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

Saint John, in a moment of confusion, tells us not to love the world because "all that is in the world,....

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon....

As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking....