Alberto Manguel Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.

  Alberto Manguel

  Wall, Reading, Book

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

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