In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
Quoted by Alberto Manguel
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
Quoted by Alberto Manguel
During the day, the library is a realm of order.
Quoted by Alberto Manguel
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
Quoted by Alberto Manguel
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.
Quoted by Alberto Manguel
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
Quoted by Alberto Manguel
My library was to me an utterly private space that both enclosed and mirrored me.
Quoted by Alberto Manguel
Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone.
Quoted by Alberto Manguel
In the light we read the inventions of others in the darkness we invent our own stories.
Quoted by Alberto Manguel