Quotes by : Alberto Manguel

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

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

I wanted to live among books.

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

Darkness promotes speech.

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important,....

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. ....

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly....