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In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

Alberto Manguel
Writing, Night, Light
Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.252, Vintage Canada

A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.

Alberto Manguel
Reading, Writing
"A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.

Alberto Manguel
Book, Reading, Writing
Alberto Manguel (2006). “With Borges”, Telegram Books

A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.

Alberto Manguel
Book, Writing, Pages
"Conversation: Alberto Manguel". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. February 19, 2010.

Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.

Alberto Manguel
Dream, Writing, Dragons

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.

Alberto Manguel
Art, Writing, Hard Times

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

Alberto Manguel
Writing, Library, Sake
Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.169, Vintage Canada

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