I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords. - Alberto Manguel

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.