Quotes by : Alberto Manguel

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power....

Life happened because I turned the pages.

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

However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book....

I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found....

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase,....

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what....

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

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual....