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“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.”

Quote by Alberto Manguel

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Alberto Manguel

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. more

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“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

“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.”

Thinking Way Book Rooms Serious Needed Fit Library Treatment Categories Divided Right Way Organised Psychiatric Buenos Aires

Author:Alberto Manguel

“I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.”

Wells Children Book Remember Night Knowing Confusion Not Knowing Illustration

Author:Alberto Manguel

“I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.”

Giving Mind Has Beens Reason Mother Certain Happened Birth Understood Justify Attachment Thankfulness Could Have Been

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

“It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.”

Stills Ideas Reason Used Games Social Reader Metaphor Used To Be Towers Ivory Ivory Tower

Author:Alberto Manguel

“We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.”

Want Should Seems Beautiful Order Culture Literature Perfect Vision Written Models Notion

Author:Alberto Manguel

“The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.”

Century Renaissance

Book:The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.”

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Book:The Works of Walter Pater: Essays from 'The Guardian.'

Source: The Works of Walter Pater: Essays from 'The Guardian.'

“The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.”

Different Age Together Moving Form Culture Activity Intellectual Starting Various Starting Point

Book:Studies in the History of the Renaissance

Source: Studies in the History of the Renaissance