أثناء النهار ، أكتب ، وأنتقل بين الكتب متصفحا ، معيدا ترتيبها ، أفسح للحديث منها مكانا ، وأعيد تشكيل الاقسام لتوفير حيز جديد. الكتب الجديدة الوافدة يرحب بها بعد فترة من الفحص. إذا كان الكتاب مستعملا ،...
As Stevenson so mournfully put it, that is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect,and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.
We can live in a society founded on the book and yet not read, or we can live in a society where the book is merely an accessory and be, in the deepest, truest sense, a reader.
The existence of any library, even mine, allows readers a sense of what their craft is truly about, a craft that struggles against the stringencies of time by bringing fragments of the past into their...
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 order.
Cataloguing is an ancient profession; there are examples of such ordainers of the universe (as they were called by the Sumerians) among the oldest vestiges of libraries.
Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.
الإلحاح للحصول على كتاب وتملكه هو نوع من الشهوة التي لا يمكن مقارنتها بأي شهوة أخرى.
Голяма книга, голяма досада.Калимах, библиотекар в Александрия, III век пр.н.е.
Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be
It is likely that libraries will carry on and survive, as long as we persist in lending words to the world that surrounds us, and storing them for future readers.
Books are our best possessions in life, they are our immortality.
كان كل كتاب أقرؤه عالما قائما بذاته ألجأ إليه.
الحصيلة هي أن القارئ والكتاب يصبحان وحدةواحدةالعالم ككتاب يُلتهم من القارئ الذي هو بدوره حرف في نص العالم
We read to find the end, for the story’s sake. We read not to reach it, for the sake of the reading itself. We read searchingly, like trackers, oblivious of our surroundings. We read distractedly, ski...
This is the paradox presented by every general library: that if, to a lesser or greater extent, it intends to accumulate and preserve as comprehensive as possible a record of the world, then ultimatel...
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. A half-remembered line is echoed by another for reasons which, in the light of day, remain unclear....
كل نص يمكنُ قراءته كنص مجازي ، لا لإفصاحه عن العناصر الموجودة خارج النص نفسه وحسب ، بل لأن كل تفسير هو مجازي بحد ذاته وبالتالي موضوع التفسيرات الأخرى .......نظراً إلى أن التفسير لا يحتوي على ما يمكن أ...
نحن نعرف لماذا نقرأ حتى عندما لا نعرف كيف نقرأ
نحن ما نقرؤه.