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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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“The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.”

World Universal Library Encyclopedia

Author: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.”

World Book Reading Reader Letters Metaphor

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.”

World Way Humans Book Human Beings Reader Crafts

Author:Alberto Manguel

“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”

World Book Reading Refuge Escapism

Book:A History of Reading

Source: A History of Reading

“But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.”

World Book Night Space Existence Remains Library Disappear Lit Lamps Outside World

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.”

Ifs World Seems Night Order Morning Essentials Library Reasonable Rejoice Joyful Echoes Severe Muddle

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“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

“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.”

World Way Certain Order Vision Reader Library Stuck Categories Entering

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.”

World Self Reading Social Bed Ordinary Lust Invisible Realms Conventions Thrill Sheets Forbidden Idleness Self Centered

Author:Alberto Manguel

“The telling of stories creates the real world.”

World Real Stories Real World

Author:Alberto Manguel

“I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.”

Thinking World Trying I Can Use Names Imagine Grounded

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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