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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

“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.”

Way Writing Years Book Ends Reality Reading Talking Conscious Lays Core Dialogue Reading Books Continuing Writing A Book Book Reading Book Writing Visceral Borges

Book:With Borges

Source: With Borges

“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

“Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.”

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Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.”

Writing Stories Light Night Darkness Invention

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

“A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.”

Writing Reading

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

“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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