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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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Famous Alberto Manguel Quotes

“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

“In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.”

Long Empty Remains Library Shelves

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“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.”

Ifs Book Stories Space Watches Study Objects Wall Illusion Reflection Affection Chosen Owners Echoes Desks Shelves Visitors Selected

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books.”

Long Important Book Problem Choices Force Space Plans Prove Empty Remains Library Collections Inherent Arrangements Shelves Vacuums Lodges

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.”

Book Space Darkness Written Havens Letters Universal Library Shelves

Author:Alberto Manguel

“In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.”

Way Writing Art Hard Form Art Is Size Hard Times Length Feds Shelves Machinery Surviving Demeaning Shelf Life

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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