When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.

- Alberto Manguel

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

- Alberto Manguel

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

- Alberto Manguel

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

- 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

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read befor…

- Alberto Manguel

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, …

- Alberto Manguel

Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certai…

- Alberto Manguel

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its ord…

- Alberto Manguel