Alberto Manguel Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

  Alberto Manguel

  Beautiful, Order, Perfect

• Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reality, Doe, Literature

  Alberto Manguel (2010). “A Reader on Reading”, p.106, Yale University Press

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

  Alberto Manguel

  Literature, Joyful, Revelations

  Alberto Manguel (1983). “Black water: the book of fantastic literature”, Three Rivers Press

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