Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.
– Alberto Manguel
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- I wanted to live among books. – Alberto Manguel
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- Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. – 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. – Terry Tempest Williams
- You must find your own gift, the activity you are fond of and the activity you were created for – Sunday Adelaja
- Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other. – Kim John Payne
- Activity never equaled productivity. Inspect every activity to ensure you are producing right. – Bidemi MarkMordi
- The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. – Jo Walton
- Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
- All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. – John Ruskin
- Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
- You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby
- 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
- I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. – Hugo Chvez
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
- 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
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter
- Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. – Robin S Sharma
- The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank. – Alberto Caeiro