“ Like the sea, the Web is volatile: 70 percent of its communications last less than four months. Its virtue (its virtuality) entails a constant present-which for medieval scholars was one of the defini… Alberto Manguel
“ Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, whic… Alberto Manguel
“ Lesen ist eine Erinnerungsarbeit, bei der wir durch Geschichten in den Genuss der vergangenen Erfahrungen anderer kommen, als wären es unsere eigenen. Alberto Manguel
“ Kitaplarla şaşkına dönmüş Don Quijote ve hac yolcusu Dante, öğrendikleriyle felce uğrayan Prens Hamlet, okuduklarıyla yaşamak istediği hayatı birbirine karıştıran Emma Bovary.. Alberto Manguel
“ I soon discovered that one doesn't simply read or . One reads a certain edition, a specific copy, recognizable by the roughness or the smoothness of its paper, by its scent, by a slight tear on page… Alberto Manguel
“ I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before. Alberto Manguel
“ Every book can be, for the right reader, an oracle, responding on occasion even to questions unasked.. Alberto Manguel
“ كتَبَ سينيكا (Seneca) مادِحاً الفضول بقوله: لقد حَبَتنا الطبيعة فضولاً فطريّاً، وانطلاقاً من إدراكها فنّها وجمالها، سوّتنا لنكون جمهور هذا العرض المدهش للعالم، ذلك أنّ هذا الجمال كان سيذهب سدى لو أنّ… Alberto Manguel
“ بوكاتشيو، إنّ دانتي، مع مُضيّه قُدُماً في كتابة الكوميديا، راح يرسل المقاطع المكتملة لأحد حُماتِه وهو كانغراندي دِلّا سكالا (Cangrande della Scala) وذلك في مجموعات تضمّ ستّة أناشيد أو ثمانية في بعض ال… Alberto Manguel
“ There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings <...> This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery. Alberto Manguel
“ Instead, I practiced different forms of reading. The possibilities offered by books are legion. The solitary relationship of a reader with his or her books breaks into dozens of further relationships:… Alberto Manguel
“ I think I read in at least two ways. First, by following, breathlessly, the events and the characters without stopping to notice the details, the quickening pace of reading sometimes hurtling the stor… Alberto Manguel
“ Each technology has its own merits, and therefore it may be more useful to leave aside this crusading view of the electronic word vanquishing the printed one and explore instead each technology accord… Alberto Manguel
“ Each reader is but one chapter in the life of a book, and unless he passes his knowledge on to others, it is as if he condemned the book to be buried alive. Alberto Manguel
“ As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the colour of the ink, the view of the whole ensemble acquire in the re… Alberto Manguel
“ The point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion. Every reading prolongs another, begun in some afternoon thousands of y… Alberto Manguel
“ Any library, by its very existence, conjures up its forbidden or forgotten double: an invisible but formidable library of the books that, for conventional reasons of quality, subject matter or even vo… Alberto Manguel
“ غير أن القراءة بالفراش تعتبر أكثر من مجرد تمضية للوقت, إنها تمثل نوعاً من الوحدة فالمرء يتراجع مركزاً على ذاته ويترك الجسد يرتاح,ويجعل من نفسه بعيداً لا يمكن الوصول إليه مخفياً عن العالم Alberto Manguel
“ إذا كان الكتاب مستعملاً أدع كل الإشارات التي دونت على حالها... الإشارة الوحيدة التي أناضل لإزالتها من كتبي (وغالبا دون نجاح يذكر) هي لصقة السعر التي يضعها بائعو الكتب الحقودين على ظهر الكتب، هذه الدمل… Alberto Manguel
