Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
– Alberto Manguel
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- 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
- Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. – 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
- 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
- In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. – Alberto Manguel
- I wanted to live among books. – Alberto Manguel
- Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. – Alberto Manguel
- Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. – 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 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
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto Manguel
- Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. – Alberto Manguel
- In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. – Alberto Manguel
- One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. – Alberto Manguel
- 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
- Life happened because I turned the pages. – 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
- Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be – 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
- Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry Truman
- My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers. – Soraya Diase Coffelt
- The whole world’s writing novels, but nobody’s reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers. – Robert Galbraith
- All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
- Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. – David Cronenberg
- Advertisers are the West’s courteous censors. – Naomi Wolf
- Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway. – Larry McMurtry
- I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers. – Maureen Corrigan
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
- She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. – Annie Dillard
- It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best. – Katarina Bivald
- For peace read books, for success read books and take actions. – Amit Kalantri
- To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
- Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So. – Donald L Hicks