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Alberto Manguel, born in 1948, is a renowned writer from Argentina. His works span various literary forms, including novels, essays, and translations, and are known for their unique style and profound insights into human culture.

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“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.”

Knows Book Turns Existence Morning Reader Pages Shelves

Book:A Reading Diary

Source: A Reading Diary

“Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word "text" unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?”

Doe Hands Eye Moving Grows Process Progress Pages Roots Defined

Author: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.”

Writing May Book Reading Realizing Wall Pages Blank Listeners Be Encouraged Blank Pages

Author: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.”

Book Whole Moments Universe Secret Childhood Reader Pages Aliens Instant Confused Spokes Strings That Moment Gave Up Early Childhood Ciphers

Author:Alberto Manguel

“Life happened because I turned the pages.”

Inspirational Motivational Happened Pages

Book:A History of Reading

Source: A History of Reading

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

World May Book Perfect Secret Pages Accounts

Author:Alberto Manguel

“Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.”

Ifs Found Magic Reader Pages Possession Secure Charm Immaculate

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged”

Has Beens Book Share Bears Pages Witness Granted Who We Are Judged Book Of Life

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.”

Needs Should Writing May Dream Joy Creatures Pages Redemption Dragons Witch Anguish Unicorn

Author:Alberto Manguel

“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.”

Ifs Mean Book Hands Certain Reading Names Reader Pages Mark Fellows Comment Bus Passages Tickets Leafs Traveller Second Hand

Author:Alberto Manguel

“A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.”

Writing Book Moments Lasts Reader Pages Picks Flip Limbo

Author:Alberto Manguel

About the Author

Born: 1948
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 140

Books & Sources

The Library at NightRelated source material

A History of ReadingRelated source material

La cité des mots: CBC Massey LecturesRelated source material

A Reading DiaryRelated source material

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of BooksRelated source material

Maimonides: Faith in ReasonRelated source material

Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten DigressionsRelated source material

A Reader on ReadingRelated source material

A biblioteca à noiteRelated source material

Black water: the book of fantastic literatureRelated source material

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