“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.” WayWritingYearsBookEndsRealityReadingTalkingConsciousLaysCoreDialogueReading BooksContinuingWriting A BookBook ReadingBook WritingVisceralBorges Book:With Borges Source: With Borges
“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
“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.” WorldWayHumansBookHuman BeingsReaderCrafts Author:Alberto Manguel
“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
“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.” ThinkingWayBookRoomsSeriousNeededFitLibraryTreatmentCategoriesDividedRight WayOrganisedPsychiatricBuenos Aires 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.” WayWritingArtHardFormArt IsSizeHard TimesLengthFedsShelvesMachinerySurvivingDemeaningShelf Life Author:Alberto Manguel
