Quotes and Sayings About Book
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I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.
-- Alberto Manguel -
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.
-- Alberto Manguel -
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
-- Alberto Manguel -
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.
-- Alberto Manguel -
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
-- Alberto Manguel -
This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.
-- Alberto Manguel -
I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,' my teacher said.
-- Alberto Manguel -
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.
-- Alberto Manguel -
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
-- Alberto Manguel -
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.
-- Alberto Manguel -
In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
-- Alberto Manguel -
To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.
-- Alberto Manguel -
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
-- Alberto Manguel -
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
-- Alberto Manguel -
The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.
-- Alberto Manguel -
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.
-- Alberto Manguel -
The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.
-- Alberto Manguel -
A book brings its own history to the reader.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
-- Alberto Manguel -
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.
-- Alberto Manguel -
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.
-- Alberto Moravia -
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
-- Aldous Huxley -
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
-- Aldous Huxley
