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Author - Alberto Manguel
Quotes by : Alberto Manguel
books
We read to understand our intuition of the world, to discover that someone a thousand miles....
romance
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about....
library
Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my....
reading
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never....
literature
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered....
almanacs
Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again,....
books
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
library
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
book burning
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot....
read
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten,....
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