Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
– Alberto Manguel
Related Quotes:
- There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured. – Alberto Manguel
- Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate. – Alberto Manguel
- But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds. – Alberto Manguel
- The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. – Alberto Manguel
- If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be. – Alberto Manguel
- Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto Manguel
- One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. – Alberto Manguel
- Dance is the ritual of immortality. – Shah Asad Rizvi
- I wanted to live among books. – Alberto Manguel
- Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. – Alberto Manguel
- Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. – Alberto Manguel
- Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. – Alberto Manguel
- Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. – Alberto Manguel
- But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. – Alberto Manguel
- In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. – Alberto Manguel
- Life happened because I turned the pages. – Alberto Manguel
- From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story. – Alberto Manguel
- In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. – Alberto Manguel
- Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. – Alberto Manguel
- Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be – Alberto Manguel
- In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. – Alberto Manguel
- Darkness promotes speech. – Alberto Manguel
- Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. – Alberto Manguel
- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
- You were born on a certain day, in a certain place, and on a certain time. God has a plan for you. – Phil Mitchell
- We see that that ritual of reading every evening at the end of the bed when they were so little–set time, set gestures– was like a prayer. – Daniel Pennac
- I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading. – Susan Sontag
- It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading. – Clifford Cohen
- The theory of karma exists not to bring fear to your heart but to ensure you do not lose hope and give up at the first obstacle that hits your path. – Pooja Ruprell
- A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. – Aman Jassal
- A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. – Aman Jassal
- I guess after a certain age, things change and those things or people or friendships that happen in movies, just don’t happen in real life. – Alberto Fuguet
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
- A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. – Gerard de Marigny
- No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author. – Neil Gaiman
- Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn’t there, and that creative invention becomes the book. – Siri Hustvedt
- The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. – Thomas Wolfe
- To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. – Johnny Rich