Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
Alberto ManguelEvery reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
Alberto ManguelWe are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.
Alberto Manguel