Alberto Manguel Reader Quotations

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

Every text assumes a reader.

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

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.

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.