“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.” WayLooksBookDifferentCertainQualityFashionJudgingShapesDefinitionsFeaturesPreciseDifferent PlaceDifferent TimesJudging A Book By Its Cover Author:Alberto Manguel
“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.” BookCertainReadingReaderImmortalityRitualModestRebirth Book:The Library at Night Source: The Library at Night
“Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.” WorldWayCertainOrderVisionReaderLibraryStuckCategoriesEntering Book:The Library at Night Source: The Library at Night
“If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.” IfsMeanBookHandsCertainReadingNamesReaderPagesMarkFellowsCommentBusPassagesTicketsLeafsTravellerSecond Hand Author:Alberto Manguel
“I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.” GivingMindHas BeensReasonMotherCertainHappenedBirthUnderstoodJustifyAttachmentThankfulnessCould Have Been Author:Alberto Manguel
