“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.”
Quote by Alberto Manguel
Author
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
You May Also Like
“Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.”
“The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.”
Source: A History of Reading
“As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.”
“A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.”
Source: The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited
“Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.”
Source: Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes
“And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.”
Source: The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited