Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
Alberto ManguelBut at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
Alberto ManguelWithout Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is the essential storyteller: he does not portray life, he creates it in all its wonder and terror and magic.
Alberto Manguel